Helldivers 2 Underperforms, Barbarian Games Returns, and More Shots of the Week

In a legendary time long gone, when video games still emerged from the primordial mists and magic still flowed through everything, there were games of ultimate power. These games were not about Italian plumbers or sorrowful surrogate fathers, but about fierce warriors who went shirtless into battle, showing off their muscles in glory, to strike down their enemies with their swords and prove they were the strongest and most manly of them all. I am talking, of course, about barbarians. And while in recent decades games focusing solely on the heroics of barbarians have been few and far between, we are now 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