I can't stop watching these Dune: Awakening videos of players having butt-puckeringly close calls with angry sandworms

Dune: Awakening's sandworms aren't just scary, they're the most brutally punishing feature of Funcom's new survival MMO. When you get eaten by a sandworm, you permanently lose all your stuff. Weapons, armor, tools, gear, your entire inventory gets swallowed up when Shai-Hulud sucks you down, and you can't go back and recover it. Even your vehicle is gone forever.

That's why crossing the desert gaps between regions is so harrowing: the worm is always out there patrolling and your movements will bring it stampeding toward you...