# Dune: Awakening’s free Blood and Ice expansion swaps sand for snow on 1st December

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dune-awakenings-free-blood-and-ice-expansion-swaps-sand-for-snow-on-1st-december/
- Published: 2026-11-01T13:44:34+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T14:56:08+00:00
- Original publisher: Eurogamer
- Original article: https://www.eurogamer.net/dune-awakening-blood-and-ice-free-expansion
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Blood and Ice arrives free on 1st December.
- The Polar Sink adds frozen survival gameplay and around 35 hours of progression.
- Offline play, character transfers and cross-play are also planned.

## Summary

Funcom will release Blood and Ice, a free expansion for Dune: Awakening, on 1st December for PC, PS5 and Xbox. It takes players from Arrakis’s desert into a frozen region, bringing a new survival challenge and around 35 hours of progression.

The Polar Sink has tundra and ice-cap biomes: players must manage the cold, gather region-specific resources and contend with guarded strongholds. The expansion also adds vehicle modules, augments, specialisation traits and an Events tab. Offline single-player is due this month, with character transfers and full cross-play planned for January 2027; Funcom says more than a million players have joined since the console launch.

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