Funcom delivers the successful launch of Dune: Awakening in South America with Gcore
- June 26, 2025
- 3 min read
Founded in 1993, Funcom is a leading developer and publisher of online multiplayer and open-world games. Known for its rich storytelling and immersive universes, Funcom has developed acclaimed titles like Conan Exiles, The Secret World, and Anarchy Online. With its latest and most ambitious project, Dune: Awakening, Funcom is building an expansive open-world multiplayer survival game on a massive scale set in the iconic sci-fi universe of Dune.
Launching Dune: Awakening with low-latency performance for South American players
In preparation for the global launch of Dune: Awakening, Funcom faced a critical challenge: delivering a smooth, high-performance multiplayer experience for players in South America, a region often underserved by traditional infrastructure providers.
With a large and passionate LATAM player base, the stakes were high. Funcom needed to deploy compute-intensive workloads capable of powering real-time gameplay and matchmaking with minimal latency, all while providing resilience against potential DDoS attacks during the launch window.
Choosing Gcore for high-frequency compute power and managed orchestration
To meet these infrastructure demands, Funcom partnered with Gcore to deploy:
- Bare Metal Servers configured with AMD Ryzen 9 9950x CPUs for high single-threaded performance
- Managed Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate scalable multiplayer backend services on bare metal servers
- Built-in advanced DDoS Protection to secure critical launch infrastructure
The robust presence of Gcore in Latin America, supported by its global backbone and edge PoPs, made it possible for Funcom to deliver a high-quality experience to South American players comparable to what’s typically available in North America or Europe.
The Gcore infrastructure in South America is purpose-built to support latency-sensitive workloads like online multiplayer gaming. With multi-terabit capacity in São Paulo, participation in IX.br (the region’s largest internet exchange), and private peering agreements with major ISPs such as Claro and TIM, Gcore ensures stable, low-latency connectivity across the region. Crucially, DDoS mitigation is handled locally, eliminating the need for long-haul traffic rerouting and enabling faster, more reliable protection at scale.
The ability to directly deploy high-frequency bare metal nodes in the region has been a cornerstone of our South American launch strategy. Gcore allows us to reach players in regions where performance at this level is not usually possible.
Stian Drageset, CFO & COO, Funcom
Guaranteeing smooth operations with Kubernetes and low-latency infrastructure
With Gcore Managed Kubernetes, Funcom was able to dynamically manage containers across a cluster of powerful bare metal nodes, crucial for maintaining game state, matchmaking, and multiplayer interactions in real time. This setup enables flexible scaling in response to player demand, whether it spikes on launch day or ramps up as more players join.
Thanks to Gcore’s managed services, our team can focus on game logic and player experience, not orchestration or hardware.
Rui Casais, CEO, Funcom
Proving performance at scale during beta—and beyond
Anticipation was already high leading up to the launch. During the invite-only beta weekend in May 2025, the game attracted nearly 40,000 concurrent players—a strong early signal of the momentum behind the title. Behind the scenes, Gcore supported Funcom with high-performance Bare Metal servers and Managed Kubernetes to provide uninterrupted performance at scale during this critical milestone. That success laid the groundwork for a smooth and stable full launch in South America.
Monitoring results post-launch
As Dune: Awakening prepared for its launch, Funcom and Gcore closely monitored infrastructure performance and prepared for a high-concurrency environment. Post-launch data included:
- Reached the top ten most-played games on Steam globally within 24 hours of launch, climbing to number two within the first week
- Peak of 142,000 concurrent players in the first couple of days, and 189,000 by the end of the week
Expanding into underserved gaming regions
This deployment showcases how Gcore’s infrastructure helps game studios expand into emerging regions like South America, where consistent low-latency, high-frequency compute has traditionally been harder to access.
South America is often seen as a “blue ocean” market in the gaming industry—vast, underserved, and perceived as difficult to serve due to infrastructure limitations. With a population of over 400 million, the region holds immense potential. Gcore makes it easy for publishers like Funcom to unlock that opportunity, delivering a seamless experience to players across LATAM without compromise.
Gcore’s ability to deliver high-frequency compute in South America gives us a real advantage in reaching players where latency and infrastructure have long been challenges for online multiplayer gaming.
Stian Drageset, CFO & COO, Funcom
Powering next-gen multiplayer survival games globally
By choosing Gcore Bare Metal servers and Managed Kubernetes, Funcom is positioned to deliver a high-performance multiplayer experience to players in South America and beyond. The flexibility of Gcore infrastructure ensures optimal resource usage, rapid scaling, and reliable DDoS protection—foundational components for a smooth multiplayer survival game launch.
Scale your multiplayer experience—everywhere
Looking to launch your next multiplayer title in regions others can’t reach? Gcore offers flexible, high-performance infrastructure tailored for real-time gaming. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you reach every corner of the globe.
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This growth has been driven by the pandemic, which has given a significant boost to the gaming industry. According to Statista, worldwide revenues from cloud gaming amounted to $1.48 billion in 2021, and are expected to rise to around $6.3 billion in 2024.New markets, new challengesNitrado’s goal was to meet new demand through two new infrastructure hubs in Tokyo and São Paulo. However, in doing so the company faced several challenges. First, it needed to find a rapid way to establish a presence in these markets, which can be challenging to enter due to language barriers and complex legal and bureaucratic obligations. Second, Nitrado needed to ensure that the infrastructure in place at these hubs would be able to deliver the high levels of low latency and performance required to deliver seamless digital gaming experiences.The online, multiplayer cloud-based games provided by Nitrado place a huge demand on hardware, and the highest levels of performance are required to deliver low-latency play. This is particularly challenging during the winter months, when demand for gaming servers increases by an average of 20%. Similar demand peaks can also take place within just 24 hours, and it is essential that Nitrado and its partners can successfully balance loads to deliver that seamless experience.Exacerbating this challenge is the fact that games are often not programmed to work optimally with the supporting hardware. For example, the load of games cannot be distributed across multiple servers without impacting the gaming experience. For this reason, Nitrado configures its own hardware and uses high-performance server models such as Intel® Xeon® E-2388G and Gold® 6348. These offer stable and high clock speeds even under a heavy load.Partnering for growthGiven the cultural, legal and bureaucratic challenges of its new target markets. Nitrado opted to work with Gcore, a global cloud infrastructure provider. By partnering with Gcore, Nitrado gained instant access to 150 points of presence across five continents, 15 cloud locations, and 25 data centers with servers. Access to Gcore’s technology and expertise also meant that Nitrado could make the leap to two new continents with ease, safe in the knowledge that all legal and bureaucratic requirements were met.For the Tokyo and São Paulo deployments, Gcore undertook all project management duties, including communication and logistics, securing the necessary paperwork (which was particularly challenging in São Paulo), importing and setting up servers, and securing contracts with local service providers. Gcore thereby ensured that Nitrado’s entry into the South American and Japanese games hosting markets was friction free and rapid, delivering significant time and resource savings.High performance guaranteedThe second key benefit of working with Gcore is that Nitrado can deliver the same high user experience to Latin American and Japanese customers it does to the customers it serves through its own servers and data centers.The performance of the hardware combined with the significantly better price-performance ratio of Gcore is the main reason why we do not rent our infrastructure from one of the hyperscalers.Marcel Bößendörfer Managing Director at NitradoThe solution set delivered by Gcore delivers low-latency, high-performance gaming through the following infrastructure services:Bare metal services: To cushion extreme peak loads or to scale at short notice. Bare metal servers are more secure than cloud solutions, as the resources are not shared with other customers.IP transit at all locations: Gcore has a direct connection to high-bandwidth Tier I and II Internet providers in the respective countries. In addition, Gcore is also available as the primary internet connection to ensure that gaming traffic always takes the shortest route possible to provide customers with a good gaming experience.Colocation: Renting space in data centers, including the necessary infrastructure such as server cooling, security and support for the company’s own servers.“With Gcore, we have managed to standardize our global expansion and cover regions where it would have been very difficult to gain a foothold on our own,” says Marcel Bößendörfer. “The cloud provider has the expertise we need in low latency and high server performance. In addition, it knows the needs of a game hoster in expanding our online business worldwide and has the necessary structures for on-site implementation.”Sign up for Cloud
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