►Heroes of Newerth, which was developed in the imprint of the Defense of the Ancients modification for Warcraft III, has finally launched after some 10 months in beta testing, where tons of players pounded S2 Games' more than 400 worldwide servers with constant play sessions. The final version of the game has 60 hero characters (though a 61st is due out next week) and an overhauled interface that has been highly streamlined.
As a matter of fact, in the final game, there's only one transitional load time--when you actually start a match. In all other cases, the game has no transitions whatsoever and its many different pull-down and stat-tracking screens are opened from a single menu and can be seamlessly accessed while either in-game or while watching a replay. Replays are hugely important to S2 Games, since Heroes of Newerth is a seriously hardcore competitive game where, let's just say, skills are very important to much of the player population..

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