After an 18-year break, there are three new Dune games on the way

Like a great many other fantasy properties at the moment, Frank Herbert’s Dune — the granddaddy of sprawling sci-fi opuses — is having a moment. Legendary Pictures is investing heavily in an upcoming movie (series), snapping up big-name stars left and right. Now, according to Tech Radar, Legendary has also signed a six-year deal to develop (at least) three video games based on the storied property. Prepare to be buried up to your necks in Dune for the next bunch of years.

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Funcom is a Norway-based company behind games like Conan Exiles and Anarchy Online. Word is that preproduction has already begun on a massively multiple online Dune game. There’s no word on release dates or what the other two games might be about, but Herbert’s universe is rich and detailed and can support any number of play styles, so the possibilities are wide open.

There have been plenty of Dune games before this one, from 199w’s Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, a lauded real-time strategy game, to 2001’s Frank Herbert’s Dune, a 3D adventure game that tanked so hard there hasn’t been another Dune game made since.

But when it rains it pours. We’ll see if Dune can keep its head above water (metaphorically speaking; there’s very little water on Arrakis) over the next few years, when it’ll face competition from the likes of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time series, HBO’s Game of Thrones follow-up, Netflix’s Chronicles of Narnia show, whatever Marvel and DC are cooking up…etc. There’s a lot of options for genre fans these days.

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