Games are great any day of the week, but sometimes you just need extra time to unlock everything.

The weekend is a beautiful, wonderous time for catching up on video games. Particularly games you couldn't get to beforehand, for various reasons.

I'm looking forward to some lovely, sociable board games this weekend, and a little bit of turkey.

The other night, as I was putting together various GIFs and screenshots for the day, Fallout 76 decided that a fog would fall upon the town.

The weekend is an excellent time for sleeping of which I need plenty. Once that's done, it's time to start terraforming the galaxy around me.

Since I forgot my Switch like an idiot, the weekend is most certainly not for local Mario Party, The World Ends With You, or any of the cooler games I really wanted. Still, there's always board games.

Earlier this week, I got to enjoy John Carpenter's supremely good Antarctic thriller The Thing. This weekend, I'll get to see how that translates into a board game.

As it stands, a good chunk of the country is experiencing wet, grey, cold, miserable weather. Another way of looking at it: it's the perfect weekend for video games.

How much gaming can you do in the backseat of a car, I wonder?

The long weekend is perfect for scything through video games. But it's equally ideal for the tabletop world, too.

I'm going for a little trip down to Melbourne this weekend. Weekend holidays are good for the soul. But they're also good for gaming on the Switch.

Sometimes, all you need from a weekend is time.

Quick quiz: how long does it take to get an internet connection fixed?

Sometimes, all the weekend calls for is a light machinegun.

It's nice being at the biggest games convention in the West, but you know what the weekend is best for? GOING HOME.

Hopefully, it'll be something a fraction better than this.

The weekend is a great time to cook - particularly if said cooking involves pegging ingredients at your friends.

Sometimes, you just want to go home and blow a lot of stuff up. Weekends are good for that.

Getting the 1997 retrospective ready yesterday reminded me of some wonderful memories that, as it turns out, are great for rediscovering on the weekend.