Arrakis consists of bone-dry deserts with giant dunes, rocky cliffs and little sign of water. The climate is extreme, with scorching heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night.

Planet Arrakis lacks oceans, lakes, or even tiny puddles on its surface. Needless to say, that's bad news for humans. "There's a rule of threes," Hawkins said.

Desert and ocean Arrakis, as simulated in the authors’ climate model. (Image credit: Seb Steinig / Climate Archive) In desert Arrakis, temperatures would reach 70°C or more, while in its ocean ...

Dune: War for Arrakis is a great head-to-head conflict game that gives players a taste of much heavier wargames in a reasonably approachable package.

Dune: War for Arrakis is a thematic strategy board game centered around the Desert War events from the acclaimed Dune novel by Frank Herbert. In this asymmetric game, House Harkonnen must dominate ...

Funcom’s Arrakis has a weather system and it impacts the map destroying vehicles and potentially killing players. They’ll also have to deal with sandworms. Players can’t fight them.

Lastly, it’s also clear that if you really lean into surviving on Arrakis, it’s possible to stay alive, as “2% of players who have played at least 10 hours have never died in the game…yet!” ...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Dune: Prophecy” Episode 6. “Dune: Prophecy” finally took some characters to the fabled planet Arrakis in the finale of Season 1, but much more of ...

The already expansive “Dune” universe is about to get even bigger, “Dune: Prophecy” executive producer Alison Schapker tells CNN.

Part of Martin Ansin's new poster for Dune: Part One. Image: Spoke Art/Coda Clearly you can’t visit the sand planet of Arrakis and maybe you wouldn’t want to. It’s hot, it’s dry, and you ...