Survival On Arrakis

Frank Herbert’s work gets the videogame treatment with Dune: Awakening

JACK SHEPHERD

DUNE: AWAKENING STARTS WITH a question: what if Paul Atreides was never born? There would be no Lisan al Gaib to lead the Fremen people; no one to stop House Harkonnen. Would the planet Arrakis fall? Would the messianic Kwisatz Haderach still come? This is the alternative timeline in which Dune: Awakening, the upcoming massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, takes place. You play as an agent tasked by the Bene Gesserit to find the desert-dwelling Fremen, who have mysteriously disappeared. You must survive on Arrakis while House Atreides and House Harkonnen battle for control. It’s a bold choice to tell a new, divergent story in the Dune universe when Frank Herbert’s tale is so beloved. “We are huge fans of the original works, but as games are a very different…

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