At Gamescom 2025, we had the opportunity to meet up once again with Funcom about Dune Awakening. The survival sandbox MMO set in Arrakis launched around three and a half months ago on PC, and as an online game, it is really just getting started.

Last month, we learned that the game had already attracted over a million players . However, the community also identified some issues that the development team is looking to correct and improve upon, starting with Chapter 2, an update due to go live on September 10 .

In our conversation with Dune Awakening Game Director Joel Bylos, we discussed that and much more, including consoles, private servers, and Chapter 3.

Maybe we can start by talking about the game's launch and its aftermath.

Dune Awakening launched in early access on the 5th of

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