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Dune Awakening: The litany against fear shows up at Gamescom

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Dune Awakening, an open world survival massively multiplayer online game, showed up unexpectedly at Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2022.

The Funcom title starts with the main character of Frank Herbert’s Dune novel, Paul Atreides, reciting the litany against fear. He recites this familiar way to ward off panic as he stares down the maw of a giant sandworm on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune.

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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.