Funcom has confirmed the worldwide launch instances for Dune: Awakening.
Impressed by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Leisure’s blockbuster movies, Dune: Awakening is a survival MMO set on essentially the most harmful planet within the universe, the place gamers can discover Arrakis in an open-world recreation for the primary time ever.
You survive by studying the methods of the Fremen, and broaden your potential by way of fight, the spice, constructing, and buying and selling. It is set to launch on June 10, 2025, on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X and S after a three-week delay to repair points recognized throughout its beta testing. Gamers with a “head begin,” nonetheless, get to play 5 days early from June 5.
We had a good time with it, writing in IGN’s Dune: Awakening beta preview: “As a longtime fan of Dune, it additionally simply feels so good to discover and be taught extra a few world that I’m fairly keen on, and Funcom has clearly put a ton of effort into worldbuilding and lore, even regardless of taking fairly a little bit of artistic liberty by inserting Awakening inside a parallel actuality and canon than the books/motion pictures.”
Final week, Funcom put on a livestream exhibiting off Dune: Awakening’s mid-to-endgame, and a large tour of the Hagga Basin “to emphasise the scale and selection gamers can anticipate,” together with the “lush O’odham, the forbidding Hagga Rift, the tall spires and imposing rock formations of Jabal Eifrit, to call just some.” Up till now, even beta gamers have solely seen round 25% of Hagga Basin, so the stream showcased “these big and various landscapes” in all their glory.
“Earlier than even contemplating the huge dunes and risks of the Deep Desert, gamers will expertise a full-scale survival recreation,” Funcom teased.
“They are going to rise by way of the ranks of the Atreides or Harkonnen; construct highly effective strongholds; courageous Imperial Testing Stations; craft superior schematics; discover and harvest in quite a lot of autos, and far, far more.” Moreover, the “Landsraad characteristic permits anybody to contribute within the effort to affect their total faction, whether or not they choose PvE or PvP.”
For extra, try particulars on the MMO’s enterprise mannequin and post-launch plans.
Dune: Awakening international launch instances — head begin/early entry:
Thursday, June 5, 2025
PDT (Los Angeles):
CDT (Mexico Metropolis)
CDT (Chicago):
EDT (New York):
CLT (Santiago):
BRT (São Paulo)
BST (London)
CEST (Berlin)
GST (Dubai)
CST (Beijing)
KST (Seoul)
JST (Tokyo)
Friday, June 6, 2025
AEST (Sydney)
Dune: Awakening international launch instances — normal entry:
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
PDT (Los Angeles):
CDT (Mexico Metropolis)
CDT (Chicago):
EDT (New York):
CLT (Santiago):
BRT (São Paulo)
BST (London)
CEST (Berlin)
GST (Dubai)
CST (Beijing)
KST (Seoul)
JST (Tokyo)
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
AEST (Sydney)
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and guide with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.