Conan Exiles devs are working on a Dune MMO

It's been a long time since we've had any games based on the Dune franchise, but now it looks like we'll be getting at least three games in the next six years - including a Dune MMO. The developers making these new games are Funcom, the studio behind Conan Exiles and the holders of the various Robert E Howard properties, such as Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane. Funcom has just announced that it is partnering with Legendary Pictures to work on games based on Frank Herbert's Dune over the next six years. Legendary own the film and TV rights to the franchise, and are currently working on a new Dune movie to be released in 2020, directed by Blade Runner 2049's Denis Villeneuve. Funcom has not revealed whether the new games will tie into the movie or not. The first of the three games will be in the "Open World Multiplayer" genre - a fancy way of saying "MMO" - and will begin pre-production at Funcom's internal development studio at Oslo later this year, so we presumably won't be seeing it for several years.