I’m going to be honest with you: I’ve never read the Dune series. When I saw Dune: Awakening announced, I was stoked. Why, you may ask, would I care if I’ve never read the series? Because Funcom was making it. And that was enough for me.
Dune: Awakening was the follow-up survival, MMO, and PVE game from Norway’s Funcom. I have thousands of hours in their Conan Exiles survival game. Any new entry into their particular formula had me sold. So yeah, I was going to pick this up on day one.

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