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It's time to start talking about the next new hero in developer S2 Games' popular fantasy action-RPG Heroes of Newerth. PC Gamer has posted up a preview of the new hero, which will be added to the game via a content patch on Friday.

This hero is the female known as Silhouette and as you can see she's got some ninja-style looks. Her powers and abilities include Shadow which lets her be in two places at once. She can use her included blades for close combat and ranged attacks and she's got a handy grappling hook as well. Look for more info on Silhouette before she's added to the game at the end of this week.

Last Friday, developer S2 Games released the latest update for its popular multiplayer-themed action-RTS Heroes of Newerth. This content update added a "new" hero, Nomad, to the game. In fact an earlier version of Nomad was part of the game's closed beta test.

A new video shows off more of the Nomad in action can be seen above. Some of the hero's special abilities include creating a sandstom that increases movement speed for the hero and any allies in the cloud along with making the players themselves invisible in the sand cloud. There's another special ability that create a "mirage" of the Nomad that deals damage and makes the real hero invisible for three seconds.

Thursday sees an explosion of new PC game sales deals including both a sale and some free weekend playtime with one multiplayer shooter.

• Steam has a weekend sale of Lead and Gold for just $2.50 and the four-pack bundle for just $7.49. In addition you can download the full game and play it for free until March 28. There's also a new multiplayer map, Appendoah Valley - The Crops of Wrath that's been added to the game for free.
• Steam has also put F1 2010 on sale for the weekend for just $19.99.
• Direct2Drive has sales on a number of its racing games from now until Monday with savings of up to 75 percent off. It also has a 20 percent sale of all of its games (including pre-orders) if you put in the promo code "marchmadness" at checkout.
• IGN's PC Store site has a one-day sale on The Sims 3 to $19.99. It also has a one day sale of Crayon Physics Deluxe to just $9.98.
• Impulse has put a number of its PC games on sale this weekend. It also has a one day sale of 18 Wheels of Steel - Extreme Trucker for a mere $4.99.
• Games For Windows Marketplace has a sale of Dirt 2 for the next week to $19.99.
• The Heroes of Newerth web site is selling the game for just $10 from now until March 27. It's also offering twice the normal amount of the game's matchmaking coin rewards for the same time period.

Heroes of Newerth will be getting a new content update on Friday and players of the online action-RTS game will be getting a chance to control the game's latest hero. Tremble, as seen above, is a giant cross between a crab and an spider and has some interesting abilities.

One is Dark Swarm, which generated magic damage from enemies while also reducing the amount of damage to Tremble. Yet another ability is the Impalers which can reduce speed on an enemy target while also increasing attacks and also healing more while attacking. Finally Tremble can summon a pal, Shudder, that has more abilities including immobilization of enemies. You can check out a trailer showing off Tremble and Shudder after the jump:

Heroes of Newerth may not have gotten the publicty of a lot of better known PC game franchises but the downloadable multiplayer action-RPG from S2 Games has been doing pretty well, selling 400,000 copies since the game officially launched in May 2010. The game has also received constant content updates and improvements (including a major free update, dubbed Heroes of Newerth 2.0, last December).

Later today the game will receive its latest official content update and this one is a bit different. It will add a new hero to the game, Aluna, that's actually co-created and voiced by movie and TV actress Paula Garces who has appeared in The Shield, the Harold and Kumar movies and Warehouse 13, among many other credits. The character of Aluna was originally created for a comic book and soon Heroes of Newerth players will be able to check out Garces' alter ago in the game.

Big Download got a chance to ask some questions to Garces about bringing her character to Heroes of Newerth. We also asked S2 Games' senior game designer Pu Liu about current and upcoming plans for the game itself.

Duke Nukem Forever may be coming out this May but that's not the only game that you will be able to hear voice actor Jon St. John do his level best to put some manliness into your PC game experience. This week the action-RTS game Heroes of Newerth released a new patch update that adds a new announcer voice pack (the Bad Ass Pack), with Jon St. John's distinctive voice as a paid premium option.

You can check out a trailer showing off Jon St. John's voice work as the game's announcer after the jump. You can also check out the full patch notes which have some balance changes and well as some changes to the in-game store currency.

Heroes of Newerth has issued its latest automatic update and this week the action-RTS game from developer S2 Games has, as promised, added a new hero to play with. It's the Empath, a female hero with a number of interesting abilities. One is being able to sap health from an enemy while the Empath can run freely. Another power allows the hero to create a mystical wall that will allow only allies to move through it.

The final ability lets the Empath jump into a friend's body, giving the friend a boost in attack, speed and damage. The Empath takes zero damage while inside her teammate and can still use her skill. You can check out a gameplay trailer showing the Empath in action after the jump:

Earlier today we reported that League of Legends was going to introduce a new Champion in its action-RPG game. Now comes word that one of its big rivals in this growing genre, Heroes of Newerth by developer S2 Games, is about to release its own new "Hero" called Empath.

Empath is shown in action in the above YouTube video. While there are no official descriptions of the new Hero's powers and abilities, she seems to be able to generate some kind of magic energy wall. There also seems to be some kind of link between Empath and another of the game's Heroes Rampage. The new Hero will debut in Heroes of Newerth this Friday, February 4.

It's Thursday night and we know that college students, at least here in the US, consider that day to be the actual start of the weekend. Just remember that 8 am test you still have to take tomorrow.

• Heroes of Newerth has a new automatic patch available to download that adds some new flags, icons and bundles, among other things
• Steam has automatic updates available for Blue Toad Murder Files and The Polynomial.
• GoG.com has added Alien Shooter 2 to its list of DRM-free games.
• Game Informer has a three part video interview with Bethesda Game Studios head Todd Howard.
• Apparently James Cameron loves Crysis 2.
• This guy is playing the original Max Payne with the Kinect controller.
• And finally here's a Battlefield Bad Company 2 music video with music by Toto..sort of.

Just when you think things are going to be dull this week, news wise, along comes the nice gift of the StarCraft II demo. It would have been even nicer if we had gotten it closer to the late July release date but we will take what we can get:

• Steam has a new update for Star Ruler for download.
• Steam also has an update (for Europeans only) for Emergency 2012.
• The Humble Indie Bundle 2, now with over $1.3 million in revenues, has now surpassed the revenues generated by the original.
• Heroes of Newerth is getting a new "hero" on Wednesday; the vampire-like Dampeer.
• The fourth chapter of Bleedout, the episodic expansion for CrimeCraft, will be released on Christmas Day and will be free for anyone to download for the next week.