Dune: Awakening, the extremely anticipated Dune MMO made by Funcom, has beforehand had a beta that was underneath NDA for choose gamers. However this weekend, there’s a brand new beta happening that gamers are free to stream and discuss to their mates about. It’s accessible from now till this coming Monday, Might 12 — and at first, gamers needed to put their names into Funcom’s proverbial hat in hopes of receiving a key for it. Now, although, anyone who pre-orders the sport can get an invite and hop on in to digital Arrakis.
The workforce at Funcom launched the beta yesterday afternoon after which, later that day, made the choice to open up the beta to incorporate gamers who had pre-ordered. In a submit on Bluesky, the developer introduced the course reversal.
The change was apparently the results of some gamers’ complaints, as Funcom’s submit states, “We heard your suggestions on this.” It did not less than solely take the developer a couple of hours to make the choice; Funcom’s submit concerning the beta’s official launch went up at 8:12 AM yesterday, and its subsequent submit about including pre-order gamers to the combo went up at 3:37 PM that very same day. Nonetheless, although, that’s fairly a couple of hours of missed potential playtime.
Dune: Awakening shall be launched for everybody on PC on June 10, 2025, after having been lately delayed from its preliminary launch date of Might 20.