Do you love Heroes of the Storm as much as we do? Well you’re in luck. In collaboration with Mionix and Blizzard, we’re giving away 50 keys for the Heroes of the Storm beta.

If you’re not familiar with the game, Blizzard describes it as “a raucous online team brawler starring your favorite Blizzard characters. Build and customize heroes from across every Blizzard universe to suit your play style. Team up with your friends and engage in fast-paced mayhem across varied battlegrounds that impact strategy and change the way you play the game.”

So if you’ve ever wanted to pit your favorite characters in the different Blizzard universes against each other, this sounds like the perfect game for you.

Currently Heroes of the Storm is in closed beta with a release expected later this year. So far over 9 million players have signed up for the closed beta.

Using the widget below you can enter to win one of 50 beta keys for the game.  For an extra chance at winning, visit www.mionix.net/HOTS. The contest closes on April 11 and the keys will be distributed then to the lucky winners via email. The contest is only open to those that reside in the EU, as the keys will not work outside of that geographical area.

Heroes of the Storm beta key giveaway

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Mionix, a Swedish company that makes quality gaming peripherals has taken to Kickstarter to fund its Quantified Gaming mouse project.  The mouse has heart rate and galvanic skin response sensors and track that data in real-time allowing players to analyze their data.  The company hopes to raise $100,000 for its project by January 13th, 2015 so that it can make the project a reality.

The NAOS QG is a gaming mouse that has sensors that track heart rate using an optical heart rate sensor and a galvanic skin response sensor that can help monitor a user’s stress levels.  Data from the mouse is also collected to provide information on actions a minute and movement data.  All of these monitored data streams can be selected in the NAOS QG’s software to select what will be logged and shown on an on-screen display.  The recorded data will allow the users to go back and analyze their game-play. and the software will automatically take a screenshot when a peak in the data is logged.

The early-bird special for this mouse was at $79 shipped but all 300 of those have been snapped up already.  The current lowest that one can be reserved or bought for is $89 shipped.  The suggested retail price when the mouse hits the market will be at $129, so if you are interested in saving some money and being an early adopter get over to Kickstarter to buy one.  And what really is icing on the cake with the new technology is that the company will have free and open APIs.  They are encouraging other developers and hackers to have fun with seeing what they can do with the tech.  Mionix thinks it would be awesome to have sweat  running down a character’s eyes in BF5 when the mouse sensors detect that the user is perspiring.  That does indeed sound like something awesome, and linking it to a VR device would make possible even more in game quirks.

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