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Dune Awakening debuts gameplay and comes to PC early 2025

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Funcom showed off Dune Awakening at Opening Night Live and announced the massively multiplayer online game will debut in 2025 on the PC.

The game studio showed off its gameplay in a Dune universe which is truly an open world because it takes place in an alternate universe where Paul Atreides was never born. By removing the presence of the book’s main character, the game’s narrative is less predictable and more ideal for an MMO community that likes to make up its own narratives.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.