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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 follows Paul, the scion of House Atreides, as his family is thrown into the dangerous political intrigues centered on the desert planet Arrakis, only known source of the oracular spice melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe. The series spans 5,000 years, focusing on Paul and then his various descendants.
Characters from the HBO television series Dune: Prophecy (2024). From left to right: Travis Fimmel as Desmond Hart, Emily Watson as Valya Harkonnen, Olivia Williams as Tula Harkonnen and Mark Strong as Emperor Javicco Corrino. Dune: Prophecy is an American science fiction television series developed by Diane Ademu-John and Alison Schapker for HBO.
Melange (/ m eɪ ˈ l ɑː n ʒ / [1]), often referred to as "the spice", is the fictional psychedelic drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert and derivative works. In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives the user a longer life span, greater ...
Dune: Spice Wars was released on Steam in Early Access by French development studio Shiro Games on April 26, 2022. The game is inspired by Dune and Dune 2 [clarification needed] with a strong influence from the books rather than the films. It is a real-time strategy game with 4X elements.
Paul Atreides (/ ə ˈ t r eɪ ɪ d iː z /; [2] later known as Paul Muad'Dib, and later still as The Preacher) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.He is a main character in the first two novels in the series, Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969), and returns in Children of Dune (1976).
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]