The crux of Hotline Miami is pretty simple: high speed, precision murder. It's brutal, disgusting, and incredibly violent, which is bound to turn off some players. Those who can stomach it – or console themselves with the belief that it's really just a commentary on violence itself man – will find one of the better arcade action games to come along in a ...

Hotline Miami 2 is in demand, we heard it through these great Vines
Hotline Miami 2 made a surprise appearance at E3, tucked away in an Airstream trailer provided by publisher Devolver Digital. We saw it, but we're not allowed to talk about it until next week. It's getting plenty of attention on its own already – the official Hotline Miami Twitter account ...
Hotline Miami 2 is in some kind of playable form at E3
Hotline Miami 2 is well on its way through the brutal development process, and it's playable at E3, a tweet from Devolver press agent Stephanie Schopp revealed. We spoke about Hotline Miami 2 with developers Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin at GDC this year, and they said the sequel ...
Humble Indie Bundle 8 serves up Hotline Miami, Proteus, more
The Humble Indie Bundle 8 launched today, offering up downloadable Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thomas Was Alone, Awesomenauts, Little Inferno, Dear Esther, and Capsized as part of its pay-what-you-want base package. Buyers who beat the average purchase price (currently around $5) will ...
Hotline Miami's Cactus on the price of freeware development
Hotline Miami designer Jonatan Söderström – perhaps better known by his prickly development alias, Cactus – began his career in freeware, developing smaller, experimental games that anyone with the appropriate hardware could download and play at any time, game-development ...
Hotline Miami sequel takes out parallel plots, emotion of early 90s
The sequel to Hotline Miami tackles the more touchy-feely aspects of the early 90s, Dennaton Games duo Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin tell Joystiq at GDC. The gameplay will stray in a few different directions, with parallel plots built around the first game, and more attention on ...
Hotline Miami takes a shot at Mac, available now on Steam
Hotline Miami is making a mess of Mac, starting today on Steam. It's $10 right now, which really is a steal for "one of the better arcade action games to come along in a while." The Mac launch is a nice bonus for those itching to get Hotline Miami on PS3 and Vita this spring, coming from port ...
Hotline Miami brings cross-buy beats to PS3, Vita this spring
Taste the happy, Vita and PS3 owners, because the raw violence-o-rama that is Hotline Miami is coming to the PlayStation platforms this spring as a cross-buy game. That means a single purchase entitles you to versions on both platforms. The ports are being developed by Abstraction Games under the ...
'Wreck it Richard' is a Hotline Miami parody and classic games killing spree
Imagine Hotline Miami protagonist "Jacket" decided he wanted to follow in Wreck-It Ralph's footsteps and leave his game; instead of going on an adventure of self-discovery like Ralph, "Jacket" stuck to his homicidal ways and killed everything he came across. This is the idea behind "Wreck it ...
Hotline Miami soundtrack hits Steam, game on sale for $5
The Hotline Miami soundtrack is now available for download from Steam. The thumping, buzzing soundtrack is one of the best parts of the game, and can now be had for $10. The soundtrack is also still available to stream in its entirety via SoundCloud. And, in case you didn't pick up Hotline Miami ...
Retro City Rampage, Hotline Miami and more Steam sales today
Some time-sensitive deals on Steam today for kinetically violent indie stand-outs Retro City Rampage and Hotline Miami, as well as many other games. Retro City Rampage is only on sale for the next six hours at 50 percent off for $7.44. We should also mention the game is currently free for ...
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