And that is something of an achievement. The highly praised 2012 original was a visceral bloodbath, complete with Al Capone poetic justice and almost problematically satisfying baseball-bat beat-downs. But judging from the new trailer, Hotline Miami 2 is upping the ante in the brutality department,
Granted, there’s a lot to love about the pig masks. But Scarface-types in animal masks aside, the smooth, distinct vibe is realized in the music video/not-quite-a-game Honey by musical artist James Dean and video artist Vince Mckelvie. There are the rows of palm trees receding in the horizon; the th
As you can see in this amazing announcement trailer, the synth-beat game Cosmic DJ is all about the retro-future ’80s. But its funny-strange distilling of ultra-kitsch transcends the callbacks to fluorescent lasers and vocoder voices we’ve gotten so used to over the past few years, with games like H
The word coming out of Hotline Miami 2’s Twitter account is that it will hit “in Q3. Act accordingly.” We took that to mean to first inform you all, and then find something to criticize, and then wildly speculate, then salivate regardlessly. Here’s what we know: Devolver Digital’s ultra-violent, ul
Before Cactus was propelled into the spotlight with Hotline Miami, he made a ton of small, irreverent games—sketches of games, really. They lacked polish. They were kind of tacky (Hotline Miami is no beauty queen). Their playability was suspect. And that’s what made them awesome. Last week, Cactus
