Cheapass Games greets the new year of 2006 with the worried grin of a boy giving an improvised report on a book he has never read. Here is what we hope to accomplish this year, given that we have no idea what we're doing:

Spring 2006: Another big move. Cheapass Games has just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever, allowing us to quietly harvest tabana gas without interference from the emperor and his cybernetic lackeys. What this means for the rest of us is a shift in the look of our Web site, and the clandestine relocation of our e-commerce portal. We're not sure how invisible this is going to be, but be aware, we've got top men working on it right now.

Summer 2006: Once James Ernest gets his basement back and spends the requisite ten days watching movies and building pirate ships with Legos, he will return to the daily grind of creating cool games. First on tap (and already in playtest, actually) is a new color board game in the mold of the very successful Captain Treasure Boots. This one is called Enemy Chocolatier, and without putting too fine a point on it, it's about competing to become the new arch rival for the world's most powerful candy man. Also in Summer 2006 we hope to bring you a game that had a false start in 2005: A new Friedey's game called Dead Money. Frankly the 2005 version of Dead Money wasn't up to our usual standards, so we've taken it back to formula and we're cooking up something much better As We Speak™.

Coming from Other Publishers: So, okay, aside from building pirate ships and wasting precious game energy at the poker tables, James Ernest has also been moonlighting as co-owner of Lone Shark Games, the design studio responsible for WizKids' Pirates of the Spanish Main. The next Lone Shark game in line to hit the streets is Gloria Mundi, a Euro-style game from Rio Grande Games about the fall of Rome, and the havoc that wreaks on your personal finances. Soon after that, we expect to see a couple other games we can't tell you about. In the summer of 2006, or thereabouts, new company Titanic Games plans to release its first Cheapass reprint, a full-color edition of Kill Doctor Lucky.