In those mythical, ancient times, when video games were still emerging from the primordial mists and magic still flowed through everything, there were games of the highest order. These games weren’t about Italian plumbers or sad surrogate fathers, but about savage warriors who went into battle shirtless, their muscles magnificently displayed, slashing their enemies with swords and proving themselves to be the strongest and most masculine of all. I’m talking about barbarians, of course. And while games that focused entirely on the heroic feats of barbarians have been few and far between in recent years, we now find ourselves in the midst of a mini-renaissance of barbarian games! To quote the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian“That's good. That's good.-Carolyn Petit Read more