As Dune: Awakening celebrates 1 million players, Funcom reveals an unforgiving 816,720 deaths to Shai-Hulud and over 6 billion grams of Spice consumed by fans of the survival MMO

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"Bless the Maker and his water"

The sandworm in Dune: Awakening
(Image credit: Funcom)

Dune: Awakening has been out for just two weeks, and it's already racked up an impressive one million players. You're not faring too well on Arrakis, though, being killed by the sand and Shai-Hulud who lurks beneath it.

To celebrate the one million player milestone, developer Funcom posts an infographic that reveals exactly how many times people have had the flesh flayed from their bones in a sandstorm: 66,883. Ouch.

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