We gave away a ton of beta keys for the game earlier this year but until today developer S2 Games has officially been keeping silent on their plans for their next game Heroes of Newerth. Today that changed with a official press release announcing that the final commerical version of the game will be released for the PC, Mac and even Linux before the end of the year for $30.

The game's official web site has also gone live with more info, screenshots and videos from the game which is not afraid to say that it takes most of its inspiration from the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Heroes of Newerth is also an multiplayer fantasy action-RPG where players control a number of Hero units and their minions in matches to take out an opponant team's base. The game will also support VoIP out of the box along with a map editor, matchmaking, stats and ladder support and more. Technically the game is in closed beta testing now but S2 Games has released a ton of beta keys already. In fact they state that there are 350,000 registered beta players and that the beta has had up to 25,000 people play only during peak hours.