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Unusual shoot-’em-up and rhythm action hybrid Retro/Grade arrives on PC on March 20. Joystiq reports the Steam version will support PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 guitar controllers. Admire a new trailer for the reverse shooter through the break; it’s also available on the PlayStation Network.

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GDC 2013 organisers have outlined three talks which form part of the Indie Games Summit segment of the annual conference.

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24 Caret Games has announced development on its rhythm-shoot’em up Retro/Grade has concluded, and it will be made available on PSN August 2 exclusively on PS3.

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Time for some more shorts to get you ready for Friday. Just think: when you wake up tomorrow, your work week will be almost over. Isn’t that grand?

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In Soviet Russia, Retro/Grade plays like a normal shooter. Everywhere else, though, it moves in reverse. Sounds confusing, right? Well, a recent post on The PlayStation Blog explained the self-proclaimed “reverse shooter” in more detail.

The story goes like this: You’re Rick Rocket, and you just saved the universe. Congrats! The champagne, parades, and small armada of princesses you probably liberated will have to wait, though, because a temporal anomaly has caused time to move in reverse.

Thus, it’s up to you to undo all of your actions — exactly as you did them before — in order to shift time back into drive.

As a result, the game plays more like Guitar Hero than a shooter (the game even has built-in guitar peripheral functionality!) and sees you ducking into different lanes so that you won’t block enemy’s shots before they ever fire them. You also, of course, must hop into the correct lane and intercept your own shots by timing button presses correctly, lest you cause a time paradox. Still confused? So are w–

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