Too much of a good thing always has its eventual consequence, no matter how you shake it. A lifetime supply of a favourite food will either prove exhaustive within a month, or turn you fat over years. Everything requires balance.

I have the opportunity, owed to some consistent work on this site, to get many games without the need to consistently pinch for pennies. And, on one hand, that means my one man show can roll out the content carpet often. But, on the other, it rests entirely on my will to plough through and review each one to its fullest extent.

The final holiday rush is an inundation that seems great from a height, but becomes exhaustive once you’re neck deep into it. Game after game, review after review, enjoyment turns to clockwork – and so does a general interest in any of it.

It’s a lengthy way of saying that I will be back to posting in February after a month long break that consisted of very little gaming. It was a good way to clear the head, step back and remember why I do this. Because when you take on a flood, you drown.