Humble Bundle 8 was already one of the best bundles so far released, coming with Proteus, Hotline Miami, and Thomas Was Alone. Now, though, it’s been filled out with four more games, including puzzler English Country Tune and batshit awesome action game Intrusion 2 (it has you ride a wolf while firing a laser cannon).
The latest Humble Bundle hits all the right notes, it’s got your standard fanfare of indie developers, charity, and DRM-free goodness but the games are some of the best released in the past few years. There’s the hyperviolent Hotline Miami for the thrillseekers, the lyrically generated Proteus for the chillseekers, and Dear Esther for those who are a little down.
And that’s only the half of it.
Jonatan ‘Cactus’ Söderström told Eurogamer today that Dennaton Games had “barely begun working" on a new Hotline Miami. I've tried rephrasing the same news in a slightly more positive manner, though, and came up with this: there’s going to be a Hotline Miami 2.
It's Sunday, you've probably spent the day clearing up after a post-Halloween Halloween party (70% off all the decorations and spooky themed sweets as soon as the calender rolls over to November, smart move) and are now sitting at your desk, tea in hand, about to sink your brain into a game. If you're stuck for ideas this is what we've been playing this week.Our Spotlight units plug content our journalists have made, that our advertisers want to promote. Sometimes the promotion is paid for, but the content they go to is always independent with no client oversight or approval.
They say there’s no such thing as bad videogame dogs, just bad videogame dog owners. A well-raised and properly cared for videogame dog, no matter the breed, would never act on its most primal subroutines. Instead it’s the videogame baddies who create the bad videogame dogs: those most vicious, toothy and spry enemies who will almost always jump on your chest and bark for half a second while a QTE icon flashes on-screen, right before you knife them in the head or snap their lovely canine necks. Dogs in games are as poorly represented as people in games. They’re more aggressive, more expendable, more dimly two-dimensional. It’s a problem, really. But today I want to talk about Hotline Miami’s dogs.
A few days ago, we reported that Hotline Miami has more to come. And that was true! Absolutely true. But we’ve since learned a bit more, and if you’re anything like us you’ll be sat by the phone clenching and unclenching fists, donning and undonning masks, desperate for extra murder.
We gained an hour this weekend, giving us a scraping of extra time to throw at games/sleep/ever-threatening essay deadlines and with the only major release this week being Hotline Miami its given us a chance to spend our time on games other than XCOM and Dishonored. Well, except for Jeremy, he insists on filling our list with the populist games over and over. And would we be so petty as to hold that against him?
Responding to a twitter query about extra levels or even a level editor, the Hotline Miami account today tweeted that "more will come." Some fans of the twitchy bludgeoning and blasting have already finished the game and are keen for more, more, more. More blood. More guns. More baseball bats. Just one more level. Just one more fragile little skull to cave in. Is that really so much to ask for? I can stop any time.
Now I'm not one to say that one of the other writers on the site stepped above their station, but when Jeremy wrote about the release of Hotline Miami earlier today he was above his station. He missed out on the launch trailer:
It’s gaudy, gory and glorious. That much has been written in blood on this site and others numerous times in recent weeks. None of it is any less true right now, on the day of Hotline Miami’s release.
I, along with much of the internet, am excitied for Hotline Miami. The top down, pixel violence paragon, oozes style and makes my heart beat faster. The latest trailer, though, the latest trailer may chill you a little.
Neon lights, pixel on pixel violence, rubber animal voices spurring you on to greater feats of murder, Hotline Miami's taken some of the internet's dirtiest loves and distilled them into a game. Now, finally, after months of waiting, forcing us to get by on interview pieces, previews, and snapshots of the game's delectable soundtrack, we have a release date: 23 October.
While we love our games here at PCGamesN we're in deep with a number of debting angencies, namely Goons Inc, Goon Ltd, and Argos. It's not stopped us buying games, just made us a little thrifty. Here are the best games at the lowest prices, from us to you. Follow our lead, son. And all this can be yours.Hotline Miami is a top down, ultra-pixelated, ultra-violent, ultra-stylish brawler that requires precision and skill, and it is so much more than that description can ever approach. There’s an electric thrill that runs down my spine when I play Hotline Miami. All that oozing neon that pulses and flashes and slowly dissolves my brain in the acid bath of violence and throbbing synths that make up Catcus’ first foray into the commercial space.
Creator of dozens of creative and wonderful freeware games, Jonatan "Cactusquid" Söderström, is gearing up to release his first ever game, the brutal top down shooter, Hotline Miami. What better time to catch up with him for a chat about his background in games, and find out a bit more about what to expect from his upcoming release.
Top-down violence-em-up Hotline Miami will be released on Steam for players to shoot, slice, and punch to the hearts content. We just can't say when.
