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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.

Heroes of Newerth has new Heroes added to the action-RPG game on a regular basis by its development team S2 Games. However for its next hero, the female Aluna, the team is doing something a little different. The official Heroes of Newerth email newsletter revealed today that Aluna will have a real world actress, Paula Garces, behind it. The Colombia-born Garces is the basis for the look of the Latina-inspired Aluna character and also provided the hero's voice. Aluna will be added to the game on Friday.

Garces has had an extensive career in both movies (the lead in Clockstoppers and as Maria in the Harold and Kumar movies) and TV (a regular on The Shield and more recently a recurring character on Warehouse 13). She currently hosts The Look on the cable TV show Mun2.

[Via email newsletter]

[Photo credit: PaulaGarces.tv]