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2012's best indie game is yours for a measly $2, and it rocksOct 23, 2023 - PCGamesNHotline Miami is one of the most brutal and best-sounding indie games ever made. The techno and vaporwave aesthetic melds with quick top-down violence to create something people still play to this day, and you can grab it for $2 on Steam. If you're one of the people with a Steam Deck, Hotline Miami - and the sequel - are games you don't want to miss. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Hotline Miami dev's next game may horrify or delight you, depending Humble Indie Bundle 21 has more cheap PC games for Humble's ten-year anniversary The Hotline Miami 3 teaser was "a prank that went way further than I thought it would" Devolver Digital showcase confirmed for E3 2021Jun 5, 2021 - EurogamerIndie publisher Devolver Digital will host an E3 livestream at 9.30pm UK time on Saturday, 12th June. It's part of Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest. There's no word on what to expect from the show, although I suspect it will follow the same unhinged theme of previous Devolver Digital E3 shows. Read more Hotline Miami dev's next game may horrify or delight you, dependingJan 1, 2021 - PCGamesNIn 2020, Hotline Miami and its sequel were ported to Xbox One and Google Stadia. As clocks rolled over to 2021, one of the developers behind the indie games spoke a little about his new project, and it sounds exactly like you'd expect. In a vague tweet, Jonatan Söderström says the upcoming game is something a little more personal, and that reactions will likely be extreme, and mixed. "I wish I could write about what we're working on," He says. "It is a passion project so I'm not sure who will enjoy it. But I'm sure some people will be horrified and others delighted!" Since it's 2021, that means it's nine years since Hotline Miami first launched. The surreal, ultra-violent action-adventure game was a massive hit on PC and console, helping put Devolver Digital on the map as a publisher. Söderström and developer Dennaton Games made a follow-up, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, released in 2015. The team added a level editor in 2016, and the enduring popularity led to a port of the Hotline Miami Collection to Nintendo Switch in 2019, and the aforementioned systems last year. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Humble Indie Bundle 21 has more cheap PC games for Humble's ten-year anniversary The Hotline Miami 3 teaser was "a prank that went way further than I thought it would" This horror dev reimagined Hotline Miami as a PS1-era classic Games of the Decade: Hotline Miami - filth, fetish, and the only video game parableNov 28, 2019 - EurogamerOh man, Hotline Miami. I can still feel it. What a cutting, embarrassingly necessary parable of violence. What a way to stand on the shoulders of Shadow of the Colossus, by taking that moral throughline and wrapping it, head to toe, in the trappings of its time. What's weird, though, is I think parables are a bit rubbish. More often than not a parable will do somewhere between most and all of the work for you. You'll finish up - watching, reading, playing, whatever - and you'll know exactly what it is that you just consumed, what the point of it was, and what you need to do next, which is usually nothing. Hotline Miami, a lot of the time, is at real threat of falling into that trap. You are summoned, via anonymous phone call, into a series of ultra-violent raids on various bad guy hideouts, and you obviously oblige. It's 2012 so naturally, Drive still fresh in the mind, this is set in the late '80s. It's a cult hit because it's indie and violent and has music, and the cult following has nicknamed your character "Jacket", because he has a cool jacket. Everything is neon, but a sort of grim neon, with a dirty, grainy flicker over the top that could be a sort of VHS effect or could be a glaring sign, as it gradually flickers with more vigor and grunge, that what you're seeing here isn't entirely real. Read more Watch us play 21 games from the last 20 yearsSep 6, 2019 - EurogamerOK, so I know Eurogamer's actual birthday was two days ago, but as is our style, the Eurogamer video team is once again Late to the (birthday) Party. Over the past three years, we've been introducing each other to our favourite (and/or least favourite) games from yesteryear as part of our Late to the Party series. During that time we've shared our love (and/or hatred) for over one hundred and fifty different games and thanks to this, we've been able to make a compilation episode of LTTP that features one game from every year that Eurogamer has been alive. In this video, Aoife, Zoe and I are joined by some friendly video team faces from the past (who?!) as we play our way through the 20 years worth of games, including 1999's Dino Crisis, 2006's Gears of War and 2017's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Basically, if you want a healthy dose of nostalgia (or just want to feel rather old) this is the video for you! Read more The messy story behind the Hotline Miami mod that never wasAug 13, 2019 - EurogamerIt's four in the morning on 18th February 2017, and a 19-year-old modder and writer named Spencer Yan is sitting in his college dorm at his computer, with a server full of Discord users eager for him to drop the latest update for Midnight Animal, a total conversion mod and original story built upon the bloodstained, bullet-riddled blueprints of Hotline Miami. At this point, Yan has worked on Midnight Animal for over a year. The project has grown from a Mod DB page and some well received YouTube trailers to being greenlit on Steam. He has permission from developers Dennaton Games to use the source code, and an entire community of engaged and supportive Hotline Miami fans behind him. What the community isn't yet aware of is the drastic creative reimagining the project has undergone in the time since they last saw an update. A transformation from what its creator describes as a "comically dark, pseudo-cyberpunk revenge story" to something far more personal, philosophical and poignant. Read more Hotline Miami teaser promises trailer soon (updated)Aug 5, 2019 - PC GamerUpdate: The Twitter account and teaser are not official. Hotline Miami developer Dennaton confirmed that no sequel was in development, unfortunately. It's still a neat teaser and the full trailer should be worth keeping an eye out for. Original story: A new Twitter account referencing Hotline Miami's original protagonist popped up over the weekend, posting a single video. It's a short, slick and appropriately gory teaser of a fight frozen in time that perfectly matches the series' tone and aesthetic, even though it appears to be live action. It ends with the promise of a trailer coming soon. Though it's clearly connected to Hotline Miami, it could be a fan film or some other kind of unofficial project. The Twitter account is new, unverified and, while it follows some people involved with the game, it has hardly any followers. It does link back to the Hotline Miami website, however. It looks good enough to be an official teaser, but a lot of fan projects are extremely high quality, so that alone doesn't mean Hotline Miami 3 is coming. That it's not presenting itself as a fan creation does at least suggest it's trying to appear official. Regardless, the full trailer should be a grisly treat. Cheers, GamesRadar. Katana ZERO Out NowApr 18, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6638525/80ce1b2b73a3f26822b9dddd77600cb927195b94.png Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display. https://youtu.be/-MvvmPKGEHA https://store.steampowered.com/app/460950/Katana_ZEROApe Out, Out NowFeb 28, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6638525/ee4fe70539cd5ec011a62457debd6b89b8be35cf.jpg APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz. Build up nearly unstoppable momentum and use your captors as both weapons and shields to crush everyone on your procedurally generated path to freedom. https://youtu.be/inL630qzCnI https://store.steampowered.com/app/447150/APE_OUT/Daily Deal - Hotline Miami series, 75% OffNov 2, 2018 - AnnouncementToday's Deal: Save 75% on the Hotline Miami series!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Sunday at 10AM Pacific Time Hotline Miami, The Talos Principle lead Devolver Digital Steam saleJan 8, 2018 - PC GamerUpdate: In a tweet, Devolver Digital confirmed that this Steam sale is being held in conjunction with charitable speedrunning organization Games Done Quick. Devolver says they'll donate 10 percent of the sale's revenue to GDQ. GDQ recently kicked off Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, a week-long speedrun marathon dedicated to breaking videogames every way possible and raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Original story: Publisher Devolver Digital is running a quick Steam sale to ring in the new year. A handful of good indies are on sale through Monday, January 15, including gratuitous violence simulator Hotline Miami and contemplative puzzler The Talos Principle. Here's the full list: * Titan Souls - $4 at 75 percent off ; * Broforce - $4 at 75 percent off ; * Serious Sam 3: BFE - $8 at 80 percent off ; * Serious Sam: The Random Encounter - $1 at 80 percent off ; * High Hell - $5 at 50 percent off ; * Omnibus - $3 at 75 percent off ; * Hotline Miami - $3 at 75 percent off ; * Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - $4 at 75 percent off ; * The Talos Principle - $8 at 80 percent off (the DLC-filled Gold Edition is $11 at 85 percent off) ; You'll also find some good discounts in GOG's New Year's Resolution sale, which started earlier today and runs through January 15. The first day's 'resolutions' (read: recommendations) are mostly meaty RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and there's a good indie presence thanks to other games like Torchlight and Legend of Grimrock. Humble fall sale includes Titan Souls, Enter the Gungeon, Hollow Knight and other great indiesNov 21, 2017 - PC GamerThe Humble Bundle fall sale is in full swing, and in addition to free copies of Brutal Legend, it's filled with big discounts on great indie games. The entire sale is a goldmine, but publisher Devolver Digital's library is especially rich. Note that some games are on sale through Tuesday, November 28, but others are only discounted until this Friday, November 24. Here are some highlights for the shorter sale which ends this Friday: * Titan Souls - $4 (75 percent off) ; * Broforce - $4 (75 percent off) ; * Shadow Warrior - $10 (75 percent off) ; * Shadow Warrior 2 - $20 (50 percent off) ; * The Talos Principle - $10 (75 percent off, with Road to Gehenna DLC for $4 at 75 percent off) ; * Hotline Miami - $3 (75 percent off) ; * Hotline Miami 2 - $4 (75 percent off) ; * Strafe - $10 (50 percent off) ; * Enter the Gungeon - $8 (50 percent off) ; * Always Sometimes Monsters - $3 (75 percent off); * Downwell - $1 (66 percent off) ; * Luftrausers - $3 (75 percent off) ; While these games are on sale through Tuesday, November 28: * Hollow Knight - $10 (34 percent off) ; * Superhot - $15 (40 percent off) ; * SteamWorld Dig 2 - $15 (25 percent off) ; Steam weekly sale includes bloody good deals on Hotline Miami and They Bleed PixelsNov 7, 2017 - PC GamerOver 500 games are discounted on Steam this week, a sizable chunk of which are visual novels and cutesy anime games. But if gratuitous violence is more your thing, allow me to direct your attention to two of the sales' best games and steepest discounts: the Hotline Miami combo pack and They Bleed Pixels. Hotline Miami is a gory top-down action game about murdering gangsters in a chicken mask. As our own Graham Smith said in his review, it's "a tight, efficient game" that encourages brutal creativity and lives by trial-and-error. Through Monday, November 13, you can pick up the original Hotline Miami and the sequel, Wrong Number, for $6.79. Note that the individual games aren't discounted, so you have to buy the bundle. Luckily, the bundle is cheaper than either individual game. In a similarly grisly vein, 2D platformer They Bleed Pixels is available for $2—a hefty 80 percent off—through Monday. Phil called it "neat, but also absurdly difficult" back in 2015 when it received its big Crimson Update, which added a host of levels, speedrun leaderboards, and, crucially, improved blood effects. If you dig its chiptune music, you can also grab the soundtrack for $1, or kill two birds with one collector's edition9. for $2.59. As previously reported, tech-noir tactics game All Walls Must Fall is also heavily discounted this week, as its Berlin Wall anniversary sale happened to line up with the weekly sale. Atmospheric survival game This War of Mine is another standout at 80 percent off. High Hell Released + Five Year AnniversaryOct 23, 2017 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6008350/bb3aedb47a3b4b1a5aebe6852c3e3cef97da5823.png Our friends Terri Vellmann and Doseone have released their incredible, full throttle first-person shooter High Hell today! It's been called Hotline Miami 3D so it might be up your alley - watch the trailer below and give it a shot. If you purchase before November 2 you get their first game Heavy Bullets for free! http://store.steampowered.com/app/673000/High_Hell/ https://youtu.be/mcTW8TyKtaM Also, today is the anniversary of Hotline Miami which was released five years ago today - thanks so much for your love and support from the start! Check out this nice retrospective from Tech Raptor! https://youtu.be/Hp8qkjljMas High Hell Released + Five Year AnniversaryOct 23, 2017 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6008350/bb3aedb47a3b4b1a5aebe6852c3e3cef97da5823.png Our friends Terri Vellmann and Doseone have released their incredible, full throttle first-person shooter High Hell today! It's been called Hotline Miami 3D so it might be up your alley - watch the trailer below and give it a shot. If you purchase before November 2 you get their first game Heavy Bullets for free! http://store.steampowered.com/app/673000/High_Hell/ https://youtu.be/mcTW8TyKtaM Also, today is the anniversary of Hotline Miami which was released five years ago today - thanks so much for your love and support from the start! Check out this nice retrospective from Tech Raptor! https://youtu.be/Hp8qkjljMas How synthwave music inspired games to explore a past that never existedOct 4, 2017 - PC GamerIn 2013 French electronic musician Kavinsky released a 13-track album of squelchy synths and triumphant lead lines called OutRun. It reveled in the forgotten sounds of 1980s movie scores, and the Ferrari Testarossa and palm trees on its cover referenced the 1986 arcade game the album took its title from. It’s an impeccably composed image so stylized it doesn't really resemble the game it's named after. That’s the synthwave ethos: taking elements of a period of '80s excess millennials find irresistibly evocative, and modernizing them so they're just barely recognizable. As Robert Parker (a Swedish producer responsible for albums like Drive Sweat Play) told Time Out , "Synthwave is nostalgia with selective memory loss... don’t really try to imitate the sounds 100 per cent, but rather take out some of the essential parts and put it in a modern context." Kavinsky's OutRun proved so popular in the synthwave scene that it spawned its own subgenre . Quite how the music relates back to Sega’s 31-year-old racer isn’t clear, and perhaps isn’t important. What’s important is that the music inspired by a racing game went on to inspire a new wave of indie racing games. Games like Fraoula’s Neon Drive , Denver Productions’ OutDrive , and the ill-fated Power Drive 2000 (Kickstarted in 2015 but without a developer update since February of this year) all seem to agree on the tenets of the genre: angular concept cars screeching along retrofuturist highways through a miasma of purple and pink. Tron's neon lines often appear, as do Blade Runner's cityscapes. It's an unquestionably '80s vision, but the specifics of the decade often aren't in sharp enough focus to be recognizable—least of all the games they’re homaging. Perhaps synthwave fans couldn’t find satisfaction in revisiting the actual games of the ‘80s, so instead they created a new and imaginary vision of what games like OutRun were. Neon Drive achieves a heightened sense of 'eightiesness' by making the music an essential part of the drive. Rather than pulsing away at the periphery of the experience, the beats in Neon Drive propel the whole world forward, creating a rhythm-action racer in which you’re not so much driving the car as dancing with it—perfect synergy between sound and visuals. The same could be said of the game that started it all: Hotline Miami. To players of a certain age it’s the kind of gratuitous and dark entity you imagined when your parents talked about violent videogames many years ago. But even at the height of that moral panic the reality was so much tamer than Hotline Miami. Doom’s blood-specked sprites have nothing on Hotline Miami’s eye-gougings or spurting arteries, or its utterly amoral characters. By setting itself so firmly in the 16-bit era with its visuals, Hotl...Hot line Mi ami: Mr Shifty out todayApr 13, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunTop-down puncher Hotline Miami had brutality and baseball bats, but you know what it didn t have? Teleportation. That is how I imagine most videogames are created. Just one man in a tie who is approached by developers like an oracle and who says: “do X but with Y.” Mr Shifty is about smashing through crowds of people while using a blink-like teleporting skill to dodge bullets and blows. It s out today and, like its masked mate from the 80s, it s all viewed from above. It looks hectic, but you can see that for yourself in the trailer below. … Get Hotline Miami, Olliolli, Titan Souls and Not A Hero for less than 10 in Humble's Devolver Digital saleMar 7, 2017 - PC GamerThe ever-outlandish Devolver Digital has teamed up with The Humble Store this week to give us the aptly named Devolver Digital week—a sale period which sees up to 85 percent off a selection of the publisher's games. Big hitters such as Hotline Miami, its equally brutal and stylish sequel Wrong Number, and philosophy puzzler The Talos Principle are all worth a punt if you're yet to play them—going for £1.39, £2.99 and £7.49 (or your regional equivalent) respectively, with 75-80 percent discounts. Not a Hero and Broforce are another two of my favourites listed, both of which are subject to 75 percent reductions at £2.49 and £2.99 in turn; while the gun-tastic bullet-hell shooter Enter the Gungeon is half price at £5.49. The "point and click hugventure" Dropsy is another good shout at just £1.74, and, if you're extra tight for cash this week, I'd recommend gamified Tinder-like Reigns at £0.84, or the wonderful Downwell for £0.99. The Humble Store's Devolver Digital Week will run this week—the full list of discounted Devolver games can be found over here, with five percent of each purchase going to charity as per Humble's standard. As always, let us know your favourite deals in the comments south of here. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. Read our affiliate policy for more info. Midweek Madness - Hotline Miami series, 75% OffFeb 28, 2017 - AnnouncementSave 75% on the Hotline Miami series during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time Hotline Miami added to GOG Connect second round line-upSep 26, 2016 - PC GamerGOG Connect launched earlier this year as a means to allow users to transfer select DRM-free Steam games to their GOG libraries. Assuming said games exist in the CD Projekt Red-owned distribution platform s catalogue, and the relevant developer has agreed to take part in the process, Connect scans your Steam collection before permanently making the switch, free of Steam s copyright protection. The initiative premiered in June with resounding success , thus GOG has returned to announce the second major batch of GOG Connect titles 17 in total. These include: * Hotline Miami; * Olli Olli; * Shadow Warrior (the 2013 remake); * Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition; * AI War: Fleet Command; * Anno 1404: Gold Edition; * Cossacks Anthology; * DEX; * Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore a Fedora; * The Last Federation; * Teslagrad; * The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut; * The Masterplan; * Two Worlds: Epic Edition; * X: GOLD; * X Rebirth; * Ziggurat; Details on how to sign up to GOG Connect can be located here, while a comprehensive Q&A can be found in this direction. In other GOG-related news, the platform has just launched a Back To School Sale which houses individual discounts and bargain bundles on a range of games. Deals change daily, however today s include Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines for 5.19/$6.66, Day of the Tentacle Remastered for 5.49/$6.99, Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition for 5.99/$7.69, and Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition for 19.99/$25.79. The Back to School sale is on now until 11pm BST/3pm PT Sunday, October 2. The list of discounts in its entirety can be perused this-a-way.
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