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 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.
In 2013, when Lara Croft's latest, grittiest manifestation captured the attention of players worldwide, Axel Hatté began building custom levels for a Tomb Raider game more than a decade old. Hatté had been excited by the prospect of map levels for Core Design's original adventures ever since discovering the level editor bundled with 2000's Tomb Raider: Chronicles, but it took 13 years for him to actually make the jump.
