


Does this top-down shooter blast a hole through the competition or is one stray bullet enough to down it? XType Plus embodies the spirit of classic top-down shooters in the sense that on-screen story is out of sight and out of mind it's strictly the player, a tiny ship with bucket loads of fire-power, and the giant enemy monsters that appear one after another. One of the pioneers of this porting method, the Germany-based PhobosLab, has released its very first eShop title, XType Plus, in Europe and the US. The eShop is pivotal for this approach, and in recent months Nintendo has allowed support for HTML5-developed games using its own Web Framework system. Although Nintendo's Wii U console has yet to light the world on fire as its library of exclusive software is well poised to accomplish, it has become a popular destination for independent developers largely due to the lack of competition from other bigger companies.
