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Dune: Awakening’s free Blood and Ice expansion arrives December 1
Funcom will release Blood and Ice for Dune: Awakening on December 1.
The free expansion takes players from Arrakis’s deserts to the planet’s frozen north, in a new area called the Polar Sink.
Players must manage cold instead of extreme heat, finding resources and upgrading gear to stay warm.
The region has tundra and ice-cap biomes, where wealthy water-shipping families guard access to ice.
The expansion adds about 35 hours of progression, alongside new vehicle modules, augments and specialisation traits.
The ice can also cool equipment at players’ desert bases and speed up production, giving them a reason to explore the new area.
Offline single-player is due in November, and cross-play in January 2027, while Funcom says it plans further updates in 2027.
Dune: Awakening’s free Blood and Ice expansion will release on December 1.
The expansion adds the Polar Sink, a frozen map with tundra and ice-cap biomes.
Players will face cold-weather survival challenges and contend with wealthy water shipper families.
Funcom says the expansion includes around 35 hours of new progression.
The game is also due to receive offline single-player and cross-play features.
- Who
- Funcom, the developer of Dune: Awakening, announced the expansion.
- What
- Blood and Ice is a free expansion adding a new frozen map and around 35 hours of progression.
- When
- December 1.
- Where
- Dune: Awakening, on Arrakis; the expansion is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox.
- Why
- Funcom says the expansion continues the game’s development and adds new survival content.
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Blood and Ice is scheduled to release.
The Water Crisis event is due to follow the current event, The Scourge.
Full cross-play is due to arrive.
- Release date
- December 1
- Expansion
- Blood and Ice
- New map
- Polar Sink
- Biomes
- Tundra and ice cap
- Progression
- Around 35 hours
- Platforms
- PC, PS5 and Xbox
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