Friday, July 24, 2009

"Hey gaming.reddit, want to try out Heroes of Newerth early?" – Love, the alien

Weekends mean spending your days gaming without fear of being caught at work. And just in time for Friday, we've got something that should give you at least 48hrs of excuses to not go outdoors.

The generous folks at S2 Games have provided us with beta keys to give out for their new game Heroes of Newerth. HoN is a standalone game based on the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of Ancients. It's also multiplatform, so all you Mac users out there don't have to bother with Bootcamp/VMWare (yay!). The same goes for Linux.

In order to get an access key, all you have to do is go to this comment thread and post the most absurd, embarassing, and/or funny username that you're willing to use in HoN. The first 200 to post will get a key - simple as that. Don't worry if you don't get in this time, as we'll be running another challenge next week to give out some more.

Here are the rules: Only one entry per user, no dirty words in your character name (there are no dirty words in Newerth, only dirty orcs), and you must be a Reddit user for at least 24 hours prior to the time of this post.

Good luck, we'll see you in Newerth!
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