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Dune Awakening Was 'the Biggest Release' in Funcom's 32-Year History, so You Can Probably Guess What Comes Next in This Rotten World: Layoffs

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The Norwegian studio, owned by Tencent, will restructure teams to focus resources on the ongoing support phase of Dune: Awakening. Funcom, the Oslo-based studio behind Dune: Awakening, has announced a restructuring that will involve layoffs. In a statement cited by GamesIndustry.biz, the studio explained that the transition to ongoing support for the recent Dune-inspired MMO requires a specific channeling of internal resources to produce new con…

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The development studio Funcom has announced a restructuring process, which will result in an unspecified number of employees losing their jobs. more

Dune: Awakening's player numbers recently went downhill and the update could only stop it for a short time. Now Funcom's developers are announcing a restructuring to make the game better for the rest of the players. What's that statement? The Funcom developer studio, behind Dune: Awakening, announced in a new statement that a restructuring would be carried out in the team. Thus, the developers explain that from the development of a game one woul…

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GamesIndustry.biz broke the news in on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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