Dune Awakening spices up Gamescom Opening Night Live with an open beta reveal

Nice information, Dune followers. Dune Awakening had a reveal at Gamescom Opening Night time Stay, which featured an open beta launch window for early 2025 on PC, with PlayStation and Xbox launch dates nonetheless TBA. This implies you – sure, you at dwelling – can lastly get entry to one of the anticipated MMOs with out having to depend on closed beta invitations. Effectively, as long as you’ve got a PC that may run it, anyway.

This announcement got here alongside an prolonged trailer, which confirmed off the sport’s character creator, alongside what you will be doing throughout your early hours in Arrakis (desperately making an attempt to not die regardless of the searing warmth and lack of water). There’s additionally an outline of the methods you’ll kind co-operative working relationships (or not) with different gamers for base-building, fight, and different survival considerations; a whistle-stop tour of the crafting techniques; and a few gorgeous seems to be on the huge sandy open world.

Dune Awakening has received some attention-grabbing bits price understanding when you’ve been out of the loop. For one, it is set in an alternate timeline when Paul Atredies wasn’t born, and as such has plenty of room to do interesting things to the rich lore present in the Dune universe. The game looks pretty cool from a gameplay perspective too, mixing base-building with battling factions and deep dungeons to discover.

With the sport set to launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S, it is set to be a correct present gen MMO price diving into. Tell us what you consider the most recent trailer under!