Funcom shares an announcement that goes on and on about the success of various closed testing sessions for Dune: Awakening. This eases the way for the news that all that success is culminating in a delay to the launch of the multiplayer survival game based on the classic sci-fi franchise. The game's previously announced May 20th release is being pushed back to June 10th, with a head-start getting underway five days before that. Word is: "Thanks to this process, we’ve concluded that with a bit more time to cook, we can act on a lot more of the feedback we know is important to our beta testers." Now the plan is to precede the launch with a larger beta test next month:

As such, we will be moving the release date of Dune: Awakening to June 10th, with head start launching on June 5th. This is not a decision we take lightly, we know everyone is very excited to get playing, but these three extra weeks will give us the time needed to make improvements that will lead to a better gameplay experience from day one.

We’re also excited about the fact that this will allow us to do a large-scale beta weekend next month where even more of you will get the opportunity to play the game and share your feedback. We will release more information about this soon.

Dune: Awakening is a beast of a game. This is multiplayer survival on a massive scale, and we’re making gameplay and technical strides not seen in the genre before. We want to make sure we stick the landing.