Top-down bloodbath Hotline Miami is defined by its perspective, but horror dev Puppet Combo decided to flip that…
No Trace looks like Hitman meets Hotline Miami. It’s a stealth assassination game with disguises and gadgets, but it’s also got slick, blink-and-you’re-dead top-down combat. It’ll be out later this year.

Yhrite's latest Source Filmmaker creation crosses Team Fortress 2 and Hotline Miami—timely, considering Hotline Miami 2 came out last week. You can find lots more SFM art over at Yhrite's DeviantArt gallery.


In an email screencapped by a reddit user, Jonatan Söderströmm, co-creator of Hotline Miami, has told Australians…
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Well, not banned, more like refused classification, and...hey, wait a minute, weren't we supposed to be over this…

PayDay 2 is getting a special Hotline Miami-themed DLC later this month, Overkill Software announced this morning. I wonder what it's gonna be like getting up close and personal with all that ultra-violence!

For one moment, Hotline Miami 2's Steam page showed that it was coming out tomorrow, but it's since switched back to just "2014." A representative for Hotline Miami 2 says the game has no release date yet, so the date was a mistake. Alas.

Hotline Miami is coming to the PS4 on August 19th, Sony just announced. If playing this excellent hyperviolent indie game on the new console isn't enough good news, Sony also promised will feel even more violent than ever before thanks to some newfangled DualShock 4 features:

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.…