Spry Fox has released some popular games for Android. I am sure you are familiar with the cute little bears that were the main focus of Alphabear and Triple Town. Spry Fox has even tackled strategy games with Steambirds, which is a classic and a favorite of mine. Their latest game takes those cute little bears from Alphabears, and throws them into an arena to take down tough enemies in Bushido Bear.

Bushido Bear is full of action, strategy, cute little bears and blades of steel. Yes, blades of steel. The object of Bushido Bear is to take down wave after wave of enemies. The enemies are wonderfully and imaginatively rendered, but don't let that fool you, these enemies are tough. Fortunately for you, part of your gear involves being able to wield dual blades. Your bear is equipped with long swords in each hand. The enemies appear in various types and patterns, and thus ensues the challenge of fighting wave upon wave of mobile defenders.

The game is instantly accessible with a short backstory told by an elder of the Forest Guard. You meet him and he explains how to fight the enemies. The game mechanic involves swiping, which is simple enough. You swipe to move your character and blades upon a path. The difficulty arises in the fact that your body cannot touch the enemies. If it does, it is game over. Only your blades of steel will rid you of the danger that is often swirling around you. You can also tap the screen to instantly move your bear to another area. Before each wave begins, there are circles indicating what pattern the enemies will be in when they show up. After that, you have to learn the characteristics of the different enemies, so you can develop your strategy for defeating them. Some enemies march slowly, while others rush across the screen with blades of their own, or shooting flame arrows at you and so on. The variety of enemies and their different characteristics make the game fun, and definitely tough in some areas. There are boss monsters too.

Currently there are three different environments you play in the game: Growlie Grove, Spooky Thicket, and Kraken's Bog.  Crystal Cave is said to be coming soon. As mentioned previously, the game is set up for you to take on as many waves of enemies as possible. Interestingly enough, there is also a quest based system. There are three different quests that you are given daily. They may involve taking down a number of a particular type of enemy, obtaining a high bonus multiplier, making a donation to the shrine, or upgrading your equipment in the dojo. Once you fulfil the quest, you are given bonus items. Spooky Thicket isn't opened until you have completed your first three quests, and then Kraken's Bog after ten completed quests. This can be a little frustrating, as you have to wait until the new quests are offered, before you can access the two additional environments. There doesn't appear to be any other way to unlock them sooner.

Bushido Bear is free to play, but you can remove the ads in the game for $4.99 There is an in-game store to upgrade your swords with sword size, attack speed, dash and a final attack. You use the in-game coins to upgrade these abilities.  The cost of the upgrades are well-balanced, and in no way does this seem to be a pay-to-play scheme. Spry Fox is using a system that rewards different types of gameplay. If you want to watch an ad to gain coins you can do so. Not only does watching an ad give you a few coins, it also provides you with a gift. The gift can be collecting a card for a different type of bear, or it could be a card that adds flourish to the trail of your sword when you attack, like a double rainbow, or fireworks trail.

There are nine different types of bears with different traits. You start off with Ninja Bear and pretty quickly gain access to Lone Cub. The bears are unlocked by collecting cards. Each bear has a set number of cards you need to collect before they are unlocked. As you get to the later bears, they take a lot of cards to unlock, but keep in mind, when you watch an ad or give an offering to the shrine (which is generally 100 coins), you are awarded different cards. Finishing quests also gives you access to different cards. This actually promotes more gameplay, and you don't have to worry about spending one hundred dollars of your real cash to unlock the bears, and that is okay with me. I have really enjoyed playing the game with the two bears I have unlocked, and look forward to unlocking the others. If you die during the fight using one bear, you can avenge that bear by continuing game play with the other bears that you have unlocked. This is a nice way to keep the game fresh, and it keeps you playing if you run into one of enemies or get attacked and die sooner than you expected.

Bushido Bear is integrated with Google Game Play Services with 13 achievements to unlock and 3 different leaderboards, which basically is a leaderboard for each of the available environments to play in. Unfortunately, Google Cloud Saves do not seem to be currently enabled. I started playing the game on my phone, and switched over to my tablet to see how the experience might be better or different, and I had to start over. The achievements I completed were still there, but I had to start over at the beginning with unlocking bears. Hopefully this will be updated in the future. Bigger screens help with the game as the screen gets crowded pretty quickly, but you can enjoy playing this game on any sized device.

You can't go wrong downloading Bushido Bear. It is a fun and challenging game. The controls are really good. Be aware that you may run into pulling down your notifications when you are rapidly swiping from the top down. Other than that, the game is really enjoyable to play. Spry Fox continues to make games that are easily accessible, with unique characters and environments. The free-to-play model is well structured, and if you don't like that, you can always get rid of the ads for $4.99. Bushido Bear is a game that your whole family can enjoy, and a good addition to any library of arcade games, that you can pick up and play anytime.

Developer of the bestselling video game defends lengthy production schedule for the expected live-action adaptation

If you want to try Luigi's White Chocolate Pistachio, you have to wait until the end of August.

It's not clear if Watch Dogs' Digital Trips will make it into the sequel, either.

"Since when did everyone become so knowledgeable about input lag?"

It's been a long time since we've seen a numbered entry in the main Tekken series. Reviews, Tekken 6 was released for consoles in 2009, was followed by the non-canonical Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in 2012, and then by the PlayStation 3-exclusive, free-to-play Tekken Revolution in 2013.

Tekken 7 will bring the series to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC for the first time, and introduce a number of new characters, including a series-first crossover in the form of Street Fighter's Akuma.

Capcom's Street Fighter 5 has been under fire from players recently, who claim that the game's input lag on the PS4 version is a major problem. The companyaddressed player concerns in a blog post last month, saying it was "looking into the reports."

GameSpot interviewed Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada, who shared his thoughts on the topic, specifically in relation to the upcoming Tekken 7:

"Since when did everyone become so knowledgeable about input lag? If everyone is so sensitive to this, of course you know exactly how many frames of input lag there were in past titles? I have a feeling many people are just prone to being swayed by popular catchwords. I have a question for everyone. In the 90s, how many frames of input lag did Virtua Fighter have? How about Tekken?" Harada said.

"People have never complained about input lag in Tekken before, have they? Tag 2 was highly regarded, wasn’t it? Do you think input lag frames is a certain number? Do you understand how it works? The actual mechanism is different depending on the game. If Tekken’s gameplay feels good, is there really a point in asking this question?

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"It’s quite frustrating to keep hearing this question, when it is hardly relevant. Don’t try to sum up the whole of a game’s mechanics with one catchphrase. Tekken 7 is the first arcade fighting game to have online play between arcades around the country. It costs roughly $1 per play. Do you really think it would be this successful and well received if everyone was complaining about input lag?

"Abroad, many top players have had many chances to play TK7 and TK7FR at Wizard World, Evo, and other events. I haven’t heard any complaints about input lag from them either. Same with the hardcore players and media that played the game at E3. I think that is your answer. By the way, what is the monitor you use at home to play games? I would be more concerned about the possibility of lag on that, instead."

When asked whether any additional characters who would be added after launch, Harada confirmed that the roster shown at E3 was "not the full one at this time." He added, "I can’t say if there is DLC or not at this time."

As for hope for any returning characters who have yet to be confirmed (Miguel, Zafina, Bruce, etc.) Harada simply responded, "No comment." Click here shooting games online to dowload and play free games

Tekken 7 is slated for release on Xbox One and PC in "early 2017." A PS4 version has also been announced, but no release date has yet been confirmed. It is not known whether the game will have any cross-play capabilities.

Trials of the Blood Dragon reviews is one of those concepts you didn’t realize you wanted until it was staring you in the face. Far Cry: 3 Blood Dragon's over-the-top setting deserved an encore, but it couldn't just be another first-person shooter--cue the whacky dirtbike racing-meets-platformer series, Trials.

Trials of the Blood Dragon takes place some years after Blood Dragon’s ending. Rex “Power” Colt has retired from the Blood Dragon killing business with his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Darling, and has two kids: Slayter and Roxanne. When Dr. Darling disappears mysteriously, and Rex dies fighting Vietnam War 4 by himself, the kids--now smart-aleck teenagers--are recruited to take up the family business of defending America.

The first few stages take place in a rendition of Vietnam bathed in sunlight and explosions. You steer a stunt bike over steep, rolling hills, in theory making sweet, impossible jumps and flips. But because Trials of the Blood Dragon requires surgical precision, you will likely spend an equal amount of time failing and picking up the pieces as you familiarize yourself with the controls. Compared to previous Trials games, the tutorial here is a bit lacking, but the game balances that out by having a steadier learning curve than previous Trials games. The difficulty of missions increases in gentle increments, easing you into mastery. The pacing might run the risk of boring veterans if the game didn’t have its share of tricks up its sleeve.

After a few levels, you acquire a gun, and for a short time, the gunplay is a fine fit, with a reasonably small selection of targets to hit while riding your bike and targetting with the right analog stick. However, there comes a time when you have to ditch your bike. In these few, scattered stages, you control Roxanne on foot, and the game becomes a twin stick platformer. The mix of platforming and shooting during these missions is a counterintuitive mess, where you can use the X button to jump, but can’t shoot at the same time. All the while, your enemies have spectacular aim, and you don’t have the time to stop and shoot.

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Not all of Trials of the Blood Dragon’s new ideas flounder, however. Later stages swap the guns for a grappling hook. You have to manage momentum and positioning with greater care than usual, but it leads to some tense, heart-pounding moments when speed is a factor--there's an amazing boss fight against Power Ranger lookalikes that makes rather brilliant use of the hook. Roxanne eventually gets to use a radio controlled car built for speed and wild loop-de-loops in a distinct slate of Hot Wheels-inspired courses, adding another appreciable layer of over-the-top action.

Trials of the Blood Dragon truly excels once it breaks out of Vietnam. Where Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was a delirious take on cult 80s action, Trials of the Blood Dragon takes wider aim, featuring missions based on action-schlock homages, each with its own wild twist. One stage is a full-blown Hotline Miami hat-tip--complete with animal masks--that climaxes with a full-on drug hallucination level that shifts, rebuilds, and alters gravity on the fly. Another stage is a weird mash up of Big Trouble In Little China and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, complete with a minecart-based platforming.

Even with all this, the game manages to maintain a plot. The twins interact during and between levels while non-sequitur Saturday morning commercials intrude at random. It’s a strange, random mix of aesthetics, with the cartoonish twins and live-action commercials vying for attention, but each stage mimicks its source material with style. The wide variety of themes and referenes does a great job of staving off late-game boredom, and the twins are surprisingly enjoyable characters to be around, ribbing and complimenting each other in equal measure, despite the insanity that surrounds them.

As with other Trials games, Trials of the Blood Dragon demands frequent replays if you want to get the best rankings and unlockable items. There’s no shortage of goodies to collect, like extra costumes, but the stages are varied enough to be inviting all on their own without the promise of rewards. You will have to contend with boredom during a few unremarkable levels, but the game's fun, mind-boggling stages leave the strongest impression. Whatever mad genius decided to smash the two series together should be commended: the mix is mostly a successful one, and where it fails, it’s at least failure in favor of trying something new. For more information you can check out here car driving games 

Reviews, It's been seven years since the release of the last Star Ocean game, with tri-Ace and Square Enix's lauded science fiction RPG series laying dormant. Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness (or Star Ocean 5) breaks this silence, but after exceeding 30 hours buried in its beautiful yet barren world it's difficult not to feel disappointed. Its story and characters are underdeveloped, its mission design fluctuates between vapid and downright tedious, and despite gratifyingly complex combat and skill upgrade systems, the game is weighed down by a host of frustrating smaller problems.

Broadly speaking, Integrity and Faithlessness is a story about first contact with alien life. Fidel and his childhood friend Miki choose to involve themselves in their home planet's civil war, and along the way discover a bigger problem. Technologically advanced beings from another world have landed on their planet and are using it for nefarious purposes. Along the way, Fidel gathers a ragtag band of scientists, soldiers, and space pilots as he finds, loses, finds again, loses again, and eventually tries to rescue a mysterious little girl named Relia.

The first contact story has been done better elsewhere--numerous times over--and the rest of Star Ocean 5's narrative elements fall equally flat. The characters are bland with little to no emotional development, and feel more like a list of tropes than a believable group of friends, making it difficult to care about their trials. Dialogue is about as subtle as a dump truck, and the unfolding plot does a poor job of communicating why these six strangers have decided to band together and risk their lives to save one little girl. There is a lot of melodrama between them with no power behind it. The relationship between Fidel--a late-teens boy--with Relia--who is maybe five years old at most--is particularly distressing, with lines like "Without you there's no chance I can be happy!" coloring awkward tonal shifts. They do not grow together; rather they take confusing emotional leaps, and for this reason it is difficult to invest in their journey. Top 50 best new free games you should play today

The world of Star Ocean 5 is big and beautiful, but feels just as empty as its characters. Open fields of detailed emerald grass shimmer under clear blue skies. Sunlight bounces off rocky mountains in the distance. Deserts are a deep, dark blur of brown as the wind whips sand around your party, and technology labs sparkle and shine with walls of glinting metal and glowing light. These areas are vast, and the dungeons you find hidden in corners of the world are mazes of corridors dotted with treasures. But none of it feels alive. Enemy creatures spawn in clumps at generous intervals throughout each area, but if you leave and come back the same enemies will appear in the same spots without fail. It's a predictable and shallow world, which makes it a chore to complete quests that require a lot of backtracking on foot through the same areas.

Most missions, both in the main story and side quests, include a lot of said backtracking, and the game adds insult to injury by not including a readily available world map. There's a local map you can reference, but you can't look at areas beyond it. If you forget where a certain town or facility is, you're doomed to wander until you find it or remember until you unlock fast travel towards the end of the game. It's easy to get lost. You're also prevented from entering certain areas until you've progressed far enough in the story, gating you on a mostly linear path and preventing you from exploring at will. The world looks vast and beautiful, but this rigidity and emptiness makes traversal unenjoyable.

Star Ocean 5 is at its best when you're in combat. All characters in your party fight at once, though you can only directly control one at a time. You can swap between characters on the fly, which comes in handy during tougher boss battles where you may want to oversee healing efforts yourself. At its biggest, your party has two casters, two swordsmen, a melee brawler and a ranged attacker--as well as Relia, who can't do anything besides heal. Battles are a flurry of motion and light, and are an absolute delight to take part it. Even longer, tougher boss battles are welcome challenges, and your team dancing around the battlefield in real time is a gorgeous display. That is, if you properly develop and assign combat roles and skills prior to the skirmish.

Combat roles are unlocked by defeating enemies and collecting special points. You spend these points on upgrading roles, which determine the behavior of your characters in battle. For example, you can unlock healing roles that prioritize casting spells and assign them all to one character, putting them in charge of buffing the party and debuffing enemies. Or you can give roles that prioritize the use of special attacks to your casters, which insures they keep out of harm's way while still dealing the highest damage. You can also combine points and special items hidden throughout the world to unlock special, more powerful attacks that are unique to each character. These attacks can be lined up so that characters automatically perform them on the battlefield, or manually executed if you switch to a specific character. This all creates deep levels of customization within your fighting party, and taking the time to unlock, develop, and assign combat roles and skills makes fighting a visual treat and a breeze to navigate. Cooking up assignments and strategies before major boss battles was a highlight of my time with Star Ocean 5.

Outside of battles, missions suffer from agonizing objectives. Too many large-scale battles come with the caveat of having to protect a certain character from dying while fending off waves of enemies, adding some much-unwelcome tower defense into the mix. Some combat missions involve seemingly never-ending waves of enemies with no direction for defeating them, and so you battle on and on until you realize you have to make an attempt to escape the area. Still others pit you against enemies you can deal no damage too, and force you to burn up your magic and health points until dialogue leading up to the introduction of a macguffin plays itself out. These missions are poorly designed, an egregious abuse of your time and tools, and become wars of attrition very quickly.

Side quests also suffer from this tedium. Some involve you conversing with characters in your party to get to know them better. In theory, the more you interact with certain characters, the more likely they are to heal you or assist you in battle, or go into an attacking rage should Fidel be knocked out. I spent a lot of time completing these drab, unentertaining side stories and noticed no difference in how other characters helped Fidel in combat. Maybe I was too busy trying to hear what they were saying over the din of battle, but in truth my efforts didn't feel like they made a difference.

Speciality skills--including crafting, scavenging, emoting, and having treasure and enemies appear on the minimap--are unlocked by completing side quests. All of these, with the exception of the first two, are unlocked by completing fetch quests marked on quest boards in every major town. These entail bringing certain items collected on your journey back to the board or hunting down and talking to certain NPCs. There's no way to know if or how you collected certain items, as most of them are obtained through drops from random encounters. There is also no indicator where in the world you can find certain things--you have to do the trial and error on your own and it's nearly impossible to track your progress.

It's also possible that you will never unlock certain specialities because you never complete enough or the right kind of quests; I went through the entire game having unlocked a fraction of these specialities. Crafting is opened up by completing a handful of banal fetch quests for a girl named Welch, and the feature itself isn't worth the trouble when you can pick up or buy the most powerful items anyway as you progress through the story. These side quests are a complete waste of time, and you can make it through the game having not completed any. Check out full video game reviews to reach more information about this games

In addition to all this, Star Ocean 5 suffers from some very strange technical issues. Characters constantly talk over each other. Side-conversations begin over talks pertaining to the plot, and if you're talking and run into a random encounter, the conversation will continue beneath the sounds of combat. Too often, while in a boss battle or major conflict, characters would have conversations key to the plot. In these circumstances, unless you've had the foresight to fiddle with the sound settings beforehand, you won't hear any of it. Pivotal conversations were lost to me over the clash of swords and spells, and you can miss important plot points if your subtitles aren't on or you didn't change the audio settings. Oversights like this are unforgivable.

Also, Fidel can bump into and physically move NPCs but will walk straight through his teammates like they're ghosts. It's incredibly jarring and pulls your right out of the experience. There is no autosave and the game's manual save points are infuriatingly few and far between. There are also parts of the story where the game actively blocks you from saving. There was a moment between large battles that I ran into an inn hoping to use the save point, but the game wouldn't let me save. When I failed the second battle, I had restart from before the first one, which also included a lengthy, unskippable cutscene that further wasted my time. Running a gauntlet without reprieve is unnecessary, and doesn't serve to add a challenge--only frustration.

In the end, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness' payoff was not worth the time I put into it. The story feels bloated and empty, with no worthwhile emotional payoff in character development or narrative. Combat and its subsequent upgrade systems are genuinely fun, but the overall experience is held back from being great by issues elsewhere. As a fan of Japanese role-playing games, it's heartbreaking to not be in love with Star Ocean 5, but it holds too tightly onto outdated character tropes and concepts--like the unfair save point system--that make it feel dated and out of touch. If you came to this game seeking the epic sci-fi glory of the series' early years, this is not the Star Ocean you are looking for. Related: shooting games online