Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Ted, and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager.

It's easy to be cynical about the modern games industry, what with developers being laid off left and right and hardware prices skyrocketing thanks to AI datacentres gobbling up all the components. But it's also worth pointing out the positives too. For starters, games are more abundant than ever before. More games get released in a single day than most people could feasibly play in an entire year, and those games cover every genre and experience imaginable. If you can think of a game you want to play, it probably exists in some form. If it doesn't, someone is probably trying to make it.

As well as being omnipresent, games are cheaper than they've ever been too. This statement might seem spurious in the era of £70 games. But aside from the fact that, relative to inflation, games are technically cheaper than they were thirty years ago, it doesn't account for the endless stream of bundles and giveaways across all digital platforms. They're so frequent that, by the time you've finished playing your current game, there's a good chance you'll be able to grab what you want to play next on some form of discount.

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