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Dune: Spice Wars is a 4X real-time strategy video game developed by Shiro Games and published by Funcom. In the game, the player tries to dominate the planet of Arrakis diplomatically or militarily. The title is set in the Dune universe, it was released in early access in April 2022 and was fully released in September 2023.
Dune: Spice Wars was released on Steam in Early Access by French development studio Shiro Games on April 26, 2022 before being fully released on September 14, 2023. [24] The game is inspired by Dune and Dune 2 [clarification needed] with a strong influence from the books rather than the films.
The first game, Dune: Spice Wars, developed by Shiro Games, was released in early access on April 26, 2022. [207] In January 2022, characters from both Rick and Morty parodies of Dune (in particular Paul Atreides-themed versions of Morty Smith) were made available as playable characters in the franchise video game Pocket Mortys.
Dune was commercially successful, with sales of 20,000 units in its first week alone. By 1997, it had sold 300,000 units. [13] Cryo Interactive's Philippe Ulrich later noted that the company had "bet a lot on the explosion of the PC and the CD-ROM" with Dune, and that the game's hit status was heavily responsible for Cryo's quick growth. [14]
Dune 2000 is a real-time strategy video game, developed by Intelligent Games and published by Westwood Studios in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. It was later ported to the PlayStation in 1999. [4] It is a partial remake of Dune II, which is loosely based on Frank Herbert's Dune universe. [5]
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (titled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and Dune: The Battle for Arrakis in North America for the Mega Drive/Genesis port, respectively) is a 1992 real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games.
As “Dune 2” attempts to step into this arena, it carries the hopes of an entire genre looking to claim a rightful place in the spotlight. The 2025 Oscars are a year from now, though still undated.
In Dune, Paul uses an atomic device on the surface of Arrakis to blast a pass through the Shield Wall, a desert mountain range protecting the planet's capital. He says this act is in accordance with the Great Convention because the atomics are not used against humans, but rather against "a natural feature of the desert". [5]