Those that frequent this quiet corner of the Internet will notice with some alarm that it’s even quieter than usual. The date of the last post reads, rather depressingly, as October 23rd. So it’s time to face facts – the all-out, balls-to-the-floor enthusiasm that accompanied the re-design and official launch of Infinite Continues has indisputably died. Gone, finished, kaput. What is left is a videogames site that is pretending to be something it’s not, whilst being afraid to be what it should have been in the first place. Still following?

First up, a confession. Despite trying to use ‘we’ and ‘our’ wherever possible, Infinite Continues is a one-man band. Hello, I’m Ashley. I have a full-time job and a full-time girlfriend and even a full-time, newly-acquired, cat. I have interests that aren’t gaming, and an occasional social life, and mood swings and bouts of laziness and other fallacies and weaknesses that generally put the skids on a one-man, all-encompassing videogames site. Without others to write the content, these fluctuations in the ebb and flow of a typical human life will, of course, result in the digital tumbleweed that rolls breezily across this domain with alarming frequency. So, from now on, I will call a spade a spade. Everything from now on is ‘I’, me’ and ‘mine’, as the Beatles would say.

Secondly, writing original content is hard. I suppose this is why a lot of sites of similar exposure levels as this one are content with regurgitating content from the big boys, spinning the same news story as you might read on dozens of other sites. I’ve never done this on IC, and will never do so, for two reasons. One, I find such stories pretty boring to write, and why do that to myself when, chances are, you’ve already read it elsewhere. And also, I’m not a games journalist – I receive no press releases, no advance review copies, I have next to no contacts in the industry. Everything here is the fruit of my own labours, with the money from my own wallet. And that’s fine, I’m just calling a spade a spade again. Essentially I’m just a big videogames fanboy hoping to add his voice to all those that already talk about videogames online. On his own bloody slickly-designed (in my modest opinion) website.

Where does that leave IC moving forward then? To be honest, I’m not sure. I have no plans to close it down for good, as I have built up a following and presence (of sorts) which I’d be loathe to lose. But there may be a period of transition as I get to grips with what content should go up here. Many people are drawn here by my Videogame Minimalism works, which is great, but something I’ve tried to distance from my writing. Others have come for the interviews with indies that I conducted in the past. I presume others come for the updates to my games collection, a sprawling mass of boxes which essentially consumes the entirety of the attic room of my house. Whatever has brought you here, I want to thank you for coming, and hope that you’ll stick around as I try to resurrect Infinite Continues from its ashes. Perhaps now that I’ll be writing it directly from my own point of view, I can dispense with the stifling veneer of professionalism and inject a bit more personality and honesty into proceedings. Because I’m just the same as you – a person who loves games. Infinite Continues is just a platform for me to get excited about them, and now I’ve reinforced that fact to myself once again, maybe a few people might lend their opinions so we can have a good old chinwag about them round these parts.

Of course, if you’d like to contribute to Infinite Continues yourself, to stave off the overbearing silence that descends on this place between my posts, that would be good too. Drop me an email at contact [at] infinitecontinues [dot] net.

And you can also find me chatting bollocks about videogames on the Infinite Continues Facebook page, and on Twitter.

Thanks for your attention, and hope to see you round here again soon!