Heroes of Newerth is actually the standalone version of the cult Defense of the Ancients (DotA) mod for Blizzard’s Warcraft 3. The game seeks to make a great impact on the online multiplayer gaming market when it launches on the 12th of May, Wednesday.

Heroes of Newerth is expected to be one of the best titles in the competitive market, because of its loyal community and over two million beta subscribers. The game will include features like integrated voice chat, full clan support, over fifty unique characters and a quick reconnect feature amongst all the improvements and upgrades. Heroes of Newerth will provide the complete package that will satisfy all DotA players, and anyone that is looking for an amazing multiplayer experience.

Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that the legendary war-based first-person shooter titled Medal of Honor is going to launch on the 15th of October, 2010 throughout Europe.

The shipping date will be announced today through an emotionally charged trailer called “Leave a Message”. The trailer will show a United Stated Army Ranger platoon heading into combat on a helicopter. The chaos and uncertainty of the mission is belied by the reassuring voice of one of the Rangers as he reaches out to his family back home.

Funcom just premiered the launch trailer for the first expansion for the highly acclaimed Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The expansion pack is entitled “Rise of the Godslayer” and will feature many new locations, characters and monsters that players will be able to experience when it launches on the 11th of May.

The Game Director and Executive Producer, Craig Morrison, explained that they are getting really close to the launch date of “Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer”, and that they are very excited to bring this expansion to life.

The name of the new upcoming Call of Duty game by Treyarch is “Call of Duty: Black Ops”. Call of Duty: Black Ops is expected to release on 9th of November 2010, as stated on the official site callofduty.com/blackops.

A developer blog post stated that Treyarch are very excited to reveal their latest development, which is Call of Duty: Black Ops, and that more details are going to be unfolded in the future at callofduty.com/blackops.

Activision has stated earlier that Treyarch will be developing a new title in the Call of Duty franchise this year, while Infinity Ward works on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

The Electronic Arts Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. announced that The Sims 3 is in development for consoles and handhelds. The critically-acclaimed “The Sims 3″ is expected to release for the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS this fall.

Millions of players embraced the game when it launched last summer for Windows-Based PCs and Mac, making it one of the biggest PC launch in the history of Electronic Arts. The Sims 3 will continue to gain momentum with the exciting upcoming titles.

Developer Croteam and Devolver Digital are very happy to announce that Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter has been released on the PC and is now available for purchase through Valve’s Steam Gaming Platform.

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter has been completely recreated in stunning HD graphics using the “Serious 3 Engine”. The game has never looked better with its amazingly rendered environments and special effects. The retro first-person shooter that brought the “shooter” into the “First-Person Shooter” genre has been completely brought up to date in an amazing fashion with new features like sixteen player multiplayer modes and a host of new weapons, monsters and areas including three ancient worlds to explore: South America, Ancient Mesopotamia and Medieval Europe.

The drama with Activision and Infinity Ward continues once again. Thirty-eight ex and current Infinity Ward employees have filled a lawsuit against the publisher of the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 first-person shooter, Activision, as reported by the LA Times. The Infinity Ward employees are claiming that they are owed between seventy-eight and one hundred and twenty-five million “United States Dollars (USD)” in royalties in addition to potential damages.

Seventeen of the employees that filled the lawsuit still work at Infinity Ward, and also, the thirty-eight ex-Infinity Ward employees represent around forty percent of the Modern Warfare 2 team.

Developer Futuremark Games Studio confirmed today that the next big downloadable content expansion pack for Shattered Horizon will be released on the 5th of May, 2010. The new free Downloadable Content Firepower pack will add a variety of new weapons and grenades to the Windows-Based PC exclusive multiplayer first-person shooter. A new trailer that was released today shows the weapons in action.

The Firepower Package will be free for all players, like all previous Downloadable Contents from Futuremark Games Studio.

Global publisher and distributor of online interactive entertainment media, Game Bridger Entertainment, announced today that the highly-anticipated free to play Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Priston Tale 2: The Second Enigma, will enter its European closed-beta test on the 29th of April at 18:00 GMT.

Testers will be able to download the game’s client very early from the new Priston Tale 2 web site at pristontale2.com. If you want to register an account and enter the Closed-Beta visit gamerkraft.com

Marketing Manager for Game Bridger Entertainment, Matthew Denomme, said that they view this closed beta test as an essential part of the Priston Tale 2 launch

Developer iSquared Games and the leading casual game publisher Alawar Entertainment Inc, announced that the addictive PlayStation 3 exclusive Brick-Breaker video game titled “Hyperballoid HD” is now available in North America and can be downloaded through the PlayStation Network for only $5.99.

Vice President of Alawar Entertainment, Kirill Plotnikov, said that they are very excited to bring Hyperballoid HD to North America, and that the positive response to their European launch showed that their combination of casual gameplay with a slick visual style is a natural fit for the PlayStation audience.

Origin8 are a veteran game development company on the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms that are very happy to announce their first title for the Apple iPad platform. Entitled “Space Station: Frontier HD”, the new game for the Apple iPad is a port of their acclaimed, mixed with real-time strategy and tower defense elements “Space Station: Frontier”, but upgraded with new graphics and an interface which is optimized for the display of the Apple iPad,

The upgrades and improvements in the new “Space Station: Frontier HD” for the Apple iPad include a detailed high definition graphics that look great even when zoomed at maximum capacity, a very smooth rotation which flips from landscape to portrait mode and back instantly

Killing Floor is a cooperative survival first-person shooter game powered by the Unreal Engine 2.5. Developed and published by Tripwire Interactive, Killing Floor was first released as a mod in 2005 for Unreal Tournament 2004. In its early stages, the mod became popular after appearing in game magazines. The Mod version of Killing Floor had its final official fifth update in July 2008.

The full retail version of Killing Floor was announced in March 2009 and released on the 14th of May, 2009 on Steam. Killing Floor uses a Heavily Modified version of Unreal Engine 2.5, which is originally a game engine developed by Epic Games.

Killing Floor is a cooperative survival horror first-person shooter based on Co-op Multiplayer. The game offers a Solo-Single player mode, and an online cooperative multiplayer.