Conan the Barbarian

November 17, 2022

Conan The Barbarian Returns To Theaters For 40th Anniversary

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A generation of tough-guy action movies were defined in 1982 with the release of Conan The Barbarian to theaters. Now, multiple decades later, you can see all of Arnie’s muscles up close as Conan and his sword return to the big screen for two nights only, courtesy of Fathom Events. After the release of Conan, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the default action movie hero for the next ten years, a position that would be solidified with 1984’s The Terminator. It was eventually just assumed at some point that any action movie would include a guy with an Austrian accent in the lead (either that or a mumbling, incoherent man who looked like Rocky). It all started here. Following his parents’ savage murder, young Conan (Schwarzenegger) is captured by the cold-blooded Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) and spends the next fifteen years in agony, first chained to the Wheel of Pain and then enslaved as a Pit Fighter. Rather than allowing this brutal fate to conquer him, Conan builds an incomparable body

November 15, 2021

The Flashback Interview: Sandahl Bergman

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My first exposure to the work of my latest interview subject, Sandahl Bergman, came when WPIX, New York’s Movie Station, regularly played Conan The Barbarian throughout the 80s and 90s. Sandahl’s work as the brave warrior Valeria was very memorable. As I grew older, I would see more of Sandahl’s work in projects as diverse as All That Jazz, Xanadu and Stewardess School. I’d been hoping to interview Sandahl for a long time, but I never had any luck until this year. When I interviewed Deborah Geffner earlier this year, I asked her if she kept in touch with Sandahl Bergman, and she said yes. Deborah was kind enough to connect me and Sandahl, and because of Deborah, the interview you’re about to read finally happened. Sandahl Bergman is a dancer, an actress and a director, and she has some amazing stories to share. I hope you’ll all enjoy reading them. Get your dancing shoes on because it’s time to hit the floor with my newest interview subject. Say hello

February 2, 2017

New Conan RPG Books Charge Onto Kickstarter

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Some characters remain perennially popular no matter what era it is, and within the exclusive public domain club, between Sherlock Holmes and the Tin Woodsman from Oz, sits man’s man Conan the Barbarian. Conan is no stranger to RPG games, and the newest product to bear the image of his loincloth comes from Modiphius Games. The new Conan RPG contains everything you need for a sword-and-sorcery adventure in two tomes: “Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of,” the core rulebook, and “Jeweled Thrones of the Earth,” the first adventure book. Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of takes you into the world of Conan the Barbarian, where heroes raise blood-spattered swords against dire sorcery, exotic lands beckon to the daring, danger and treasure lurks in forgotten ruins, and where loathsome creatures haunt the spaces beneath the earth… as well as in the throne-rooms of mighty kingdoms! Seek your fortune in forbidden tombs or upon blood-soaked battlefields. Cast dark and terrible spells of unimaginable power, at the price of

January 20, 2017

Conan Exiles Gets Domination Trailer

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The past two months has seen the Conan Exiles community grow rapidly as Funcom has revealed more and more information about the game including releasing the first two trailers based on the game’s ‘Survive, build, dominate’ tagline. Funcom has released the ‘Domination’ trailer revealing how players must engage in savage war and brutal combat to dominate the Exiled Lands. You can check out the trailer below. Joel Bylos, Creative Director at Funcom, spoke about the upcoming release, saying: “Take control of a towering god and drive your enemies before you as you crush their homes and conquer their land. That is the epitome of player vs. player conflict in Conan Exiles. We are giving players a huge, detailed open world where they can go out build a village, a city, or a vast empire in their name. If you are on a PvP multiplayer server, just remember there is always someone willing to take that from you.” Combat is a key aspect of the game and players will engage in brutal

November 16, 2016

Conan Exiles Gets Early Access Release Date

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In less than three months, gamers everywhere will get to follow in the bloodstained footsteps of the world’s greatest fantasy hero as Conan Exiles, Funcom’s upcoming open-world survival game, hacks and slashes its way into Early Access. The development team is currently hard at work bringing the world of Conan to life, and today Funcom released a collection of new screenshots which captures just how far the game has progressed visually the past few months. Funcom is also thrilled to announce it has teamed up with NVIDIA to implement their cutting-edge Ansel technology which lets players take breathtaking 360 degree screenshots of the game. These screenshots can even be viewed in VR with devices such as Vive, Oculus Rift, and mobile VR. Funcom has today released several new 360 degree screenshots of Conan Exiles available on the link above. Funcom today also announced that Conan Exiles will be available in 11 languages when it enters Early Access in January 2017: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean,