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Play DotA clone Heroes of Newerth on Linux Natively For Free

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 9, 2011

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Heroes of Newerth (commonly known as HoN) is a
free-to-play action/real-time strategy game based on DotA. The
developer S2 Games announced last Friday that HoN is now
free-to-play. HoN is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3
mod, Defense of the Ancients (DotA), but with vast improvements in
graphics and gameplay. In HoN, two teams of up to five players each
take on the role of special Hero units.

With the assistance of AI-controlled armies, each team sets out
with the sole objective of destroying the other team’s base. As a
match progresses, players can earn experience and gold which can be
used to upgrade skills or purchase items to make their character
more powerful.The game is available for Windows, Mac OS X and
Linux.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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