Devolver Digital and Dennaton Games just released a new trailer for Hotline Miami 2, the highly anticipated sequel to 2012's acclaimed indie gorefest and one of our favorite games for the PlayStation Vita. The video doesn't court as much controversy as, say, that notorious sexual assault scene from an early demo did.…
The top-down murder-death-kill simulator Hotline Miami had already earned the distinction of having one of 2012's top video game soundtracks. But these mash-ups from Jessica "NNXT" Gore take the whole thing to another level.
Otherwise harmless little things, like the bunny mask from Team Fortress 2, can have a huge impact. For example, it can get someone in the Steam Community to pay homage to Hotline Miami with the game's characters (complete with 80s sunglasses) in a really stunning way.
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There are PS4 controllers popping up in the wild ahead of the console's release. Some people in the industry have one already. Here's one, taking advantage of the fact the pads will run - with a minimum of fuss on more than just a PS4.
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There's a point in the Hotline Miami 2 demo where it looks for all the world like one of the characters is about to rape a woman. That didn't go down too well.
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Well, it was going to happen eventually. It's Hotline: Miami. Short, sweet, violent and exciting; the perfect recipe for a great internet flick, which is exactly what this man is trying to make—and crowdfund.
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Here's a humorously long list of banned questions for Hotline Miami 2, straight from the developers' gamescom booth. It might have been a slightly less time-consuming to put up a list of allowed questions. Maybe next year! In any case, the full list is below.
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Hotline Miami 2 publisher Devolver Digital offer a succinct, URL-based answer to the question, "Can I post and monetize videos of Devolver games?"
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I had missed that Eurogamer ran a bunch of footage from the demo of Hotline Miami 2 that I played back at E3. Here's the game in action, with some useful information delivered by a man wearing a chicken mask 1/20th as creepy as the one in the game. I've been replaying the first game on Vita, and it really does work…
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Devolver Digital has officially announced the sequel to last year's bloody and surreal top-down action game, Hotline Miami.
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In case you forgot, the Mega 64 crew returned with a new video to remind you that Hotline Miami is not just fun, but bloody violent.
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This spring, Vita owners will be able to play Hotline Miami. That much we know. But what does the game look like in action on the portable?
Sociopaths and electronic-music fans rejoice: Hotline Miami is now available for Mac.
Hotline Miami, the indie smash hit of 2012 on PC, is coming to PS3 and PS Vita this spring.
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Here's a scene from Fallout: New Vegas re-done Hotline Miami style. I wonder how a game like this would work? How would VATS come into the picture, if at all? Well, as long as I get to kill Super Mutants I guess!
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Hotline Miami is one of the most vicious, violent games in recent memory. This video by PulpitPower explores what would happen if we put Hotline Miami's savage protagonist in some old-school games (and a couple of newer ones, too!) The results are about as horrifying as you'd expect.
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I played more games in 2012 than any other year of my life. It was a weird—but thoroughly wonderful—year, and one that upset a lot of my expectations. Games I'd assumed would be amazing fell short of the mark, while others came out of nowhere to become fast favorites.
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Zac Gorman's been doing video game-centric comics for Kotaku for the better part of a year now. He's riffed on everything from Dishonored's stealth to what makes people jealous in Journey. So, it's only fitting that he lets everybody know what his favorite playable experiences from the last twelve months were. It's an …
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As a writer, it's my job to put things together, to construct a narrative out of disparate pieces. As human beings who try to make sense of the world, we all do that unconsciously: when everything is a story, the world makes sense.
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In a fit of frustration over Hotline Miami and the way gamers discuss violent games, I ended up talking to game critic/provocateur Cara Ellison. She adores Hotline Miami, you see.
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