Today the DOTA mod remake Heroes Of Newerth from S2games has gone retail !
S2Games made GNU/Linux clients for their Savage series and HoN is no exception !
It runs pretty good on GNU/Linux and offer a native 64-bit client.
Although the Savage series is free to play (with an option to buy premium stuff) HoN will require one fee of $30 in order to play. (SEA residents can still play for free at the moment).
For an online game one payment for life is not much at all, some online games demand a monthly payment.
Heroes of Newerth Has Launched!
As of 4PM EST (-5 GMT) on May 12th, 2010, HoN has officially launched and gone retail!
“We hope that you will continue to support us as we move from a very successful beta to retail. With nearly three million users participating in the closed beta, we had a lot of help testing and have implemented many suggestions from our community.
We’re now working on bringing you more heroes, items, maps and features. HoN will also include team matchmaking, the long-awaited map editor, new modes, and achievements in the near future. HoN, in the words of Marc “Maliken” DeForest, CEO of S2 Games, “will never truly be finished.” This means that you can count on many new additions and features as HoN continues to evolve!”
Although the beta has ended the game will continue to evolve :
Here is a sneak peak of things to come:
• Consistent NEW Content Patches
• Arranged Team Matchmaking
• Full Scale Support for Competitive Play (many tournaments and more in-game features to come)
• Achievements
• New Game Modes
• SDK (includes Map Editor) – Empowering players to create their own games and different modes.
• The DREAM Program (propose your own heroes to be included in the next patches of HoN).
About HoN
Heroes of Newerth is a Real Time Strategy/Real-Time Tactics online multiplayer game in which the player controls one of (at the time of writing) 64 heroes (many of whom are DOTA ports) and fights with his team against the other team (all of the team members controlled by humans).
Each hero has 4 different abilities and can level up, up to level 25 by killing other heroes and enemies.
The goal of the game is to destroy the other team’s main building.
There is a GNU/Linux Clan named Keepers Of The Kernel (KotK) you can join !
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Video
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Links
Heroes Of Newerth
GNU/Linux Clan Keepers Of The Kernel (KotK)
S2games
DOTA