What we've been playing – Switch 2s and sand worms

7th June

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, we get all excited about the arrival of Nintendo’s new console, the Switch 2, and we pop on our filtration suits and head into the deserts of Arrakis with the launch of Dune: Awakening.

What have you been playing?

Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.

Switch 2

Switch 2 has arrived! Yay!? I might elaborate on this a little at some point, but I’m somehow both very excited by this new console and simultaneously a little bored. Key to this, I think, is the lack of a classic Nintendo platformer or adventure to dive into. Mario Kart World is great fun, but Mario Kart has always been my side game, the one I play for 30 minutes here or there, not the main event.

I know Zelda is there, but I’ve played a lot of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom already. Maybe I’m greedy, but I just wish this launch had a little more to it.

Dune Awakening, PCTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.

For the past few months my only experience playing Dune Awakening was through closed press previews and solo trips through the betas: solitary experiences! But with the public release on the 5th I was able to finally hop into this Survival MMO with friends.