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Dune: Awakening - Official Release Date Reveal Trailer
Watch the Release Date Reveal Trailer for Dune: Awakening, an open-world survival MMO developed by Funcom. Players will do any and all things Dune-related from taming a Sandworm, building a fortress, and mastering the power that lies within the planet of Arrakis for the taking. Conquer the sands alone or with hundreds of other players in this shared world based on the Dune novel. Dune: Awakening is launching on May 20 for PC with a release on PlayStation 5 (PS5) and Xbox Series X|S at a later date.
Dune: House Corrino Volume 2 Cover Reveal
The second volume of collected issues of the Dune: House Corrino comic adaptation will be released in May in hardcover from BOOM! Scripts by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, art by Simone Ragazzoni and Andrea Scalmazzi, cover by Raymond Swanland.
The third and final volume will be out in November.
Bulgarian House Atreides wins Comic Book of the Year
Last year, Kevin was the author guest at the Bulgaria Comic Con in Sofia, where he signed copies of the just-released Bulgarian translation of Dune: House Atreides comic adaptation (originally published by BOOM! in the U.S.).
We’ve just received notice that the translation has won Comic Book of the Year from Ozone.bg (a Bulgarian distributor similar to Amazon).
More Dune Series Translations Coming
Worldwide interest in the entire Dune series continues to grow, with new foreign editions forthcoming. New deals have recently been made for Frank Herbert’s original series in Italian, Estonian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Korean, Belarusian, Latvian, Georgian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian.
Translation deals for Brian and Kevin’s Dune-series novels have recently been made for Italian, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Romania, German, and Slovak.
Dune: Edge of a Crysknife Coming from BOOM!
Brian and Kevin’s story “Edge of a Crysknife,” the tale of Shadout Mapes in her early years as a Fremen rebel (from Sands of Dune), will become a two-issue comic miniseries from BOOM! Brian and Kevin have already written and delivered the two scripts. Artwork will be by Simone Ragazzoni and colors by Dan Jackson. The first issue, “Hiding Among Harkonnens,” is due out July 2025.
Here is a special cover reveal, new painting by Raymond Swanland.
