Dune: Awakening Announces Physical PS5 Release with the Most Unfortunate Timing
Funcom announces a physical PlayStation 5 release for Dune: Awakening, arriving amidst new reveals of single-player and post-console plans.
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The brief
Funcom has announced a physical edition of Dune: Awakening for the PlayStation 5, scheduled for release on September 22. The survival game is also introducing a single-player mode for the desert planet environment.
Coverage from PlayStation.Blog, Games Press, and PlayFront emphasizes the console deep dive and the addition of single-player functionality. Push Square notes that the timing of the physical PS5 release is unfortunate, while Massively Overpowered highlights the game's first-year recap and fall strategy.
Future developments involve the execution of fall plans and further details regarding post-console plans teased in a new video.
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Quick answers
When is the physical PS5 version of Dune: Awakening releasing?
The physical edition is scheduled for release on September 22.
What new gameplay mode has been announced?
A single-player mode for the desert planet survival game has been introduced.
Which developer is behind the game?
The game is released by Funcom.
Coverage (6)
- Dune: Awakening to Soon Receive Single-Player Mode, Expanded Difficulty Settings, and Console Versions ixbt.games · 4h ago
- Dune: Awakening Deep Dive: Finally, single-player mode for the desert planet survival game PlayFront · 4h ago
- What Dune: Awakening brings to PlayStation 5 Sept 22 PlayStation.Blog · 4h ago
- Funcom Releases Dune: Awakening Console Deep Dive, Announces Physical Edition Games Press · 4h ago
- Dune Awakening recaps its first year and fall plans and teases post-console plans in new video Massively Overpowered · 4h ago
- Dune: Awakening Announces Physical PS5 Release with the Most Unfortunate Timing Push Square · 4h ago
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