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Bandai-Namco has announced that the first round of closed beta testing on July 23rd. Supernova is a real-time strategy MOBA for PC. Players can find out how to get involved in the CBT by visiting the official site.

Raphael "Raph" Koster is an award-winning game designer and creative director best known for his work on Ultima Online (UO) for Origin Systems/EA and Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) for Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). A pioneer of massively multiplayer online games, Koster is regarded as one of the video game industry’s foremost authorities on game design.

Aeria games has announced a brand new anime styled, monster-hunting MMORPG called Dragomon Hunter. The game will be available beginning sometime in the fall of 2015. Players can take part in the game as a Scout, Mercenary, Mage or Cleric.

Spacetime Studios, creators of Arcane Legends and Pocket Legends, has announced that its forthcoming mobile MOBA, Call of Champions, has officially entered its beta phase of development. Players will be able to take part in Call of Champions via iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

I’m not going to lie to you: 2015 hasn’t exactly been full of big moments of big announcements. Maybe it’s because all of the best ideas are already taken, maybe it’s because everyone likes different things, or maybe it’s because developers and publishers are getting lazy, but there’s no denying the fact that the MMO genre has seen better years. From a lack of real excitement or hype around releases, to a lack of innovation, it’s not like it used to be.

Player Versus Player is MMORPG’s bi-weekly debate column where two writers go head to head to debate the issues you care about. This week, we’re talking about grind. We all hate monotonously killing mobs but is it possible that the end is more important than the means? This week we ask, do MMOs need grind?

Nintendo has issued a brief statement to the world indicating that its president, Satoru Iwata, has passed away at the age of 55. Iwata had been in poor health for the last year or so, but we are saddened at the news of his passing.

During next weekend’s QuakeCon Bethesda devs will be on hand to conduct a series of panels based on their games, most notably both Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls Online teams will be present throughout convention.

Lusorion Creatives have reached out to MMORPG.com to let us know that their 2D Sci-Fi Advendure RPG Legend of Azulgar is in early alpha.

Beamdog has announced a 25-hour expansion to Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition. Called Siege of Dragonspear, the expansion contains new content, new adventures and more.