High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heroes of Newerth (HoN) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game was heavily inspired by the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map Defense of the Ancients and is S2 Games` first multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title. The game was released on May 12, 2010 and re-released as a free-to-play game on July 29, 2011.