As he explains in the video below, James Ernest started Cheapass games in 1996 and started racking up awards and acclaim for his business model, which sold great games at a five dollar price tag.

Tak was conceived by New York Times bestselling author and real-world Gandalf Patrick Rothfuss for a novel. Cheapass Games has heaved it into reality, and it is funding on Kickstarter now. Tak first ...

Every other week Scott Jon Siegel contributes Off the Grid, a column on gaming away from the television screen or monitor. As a consumer, my biggest gripe with games like RoboRally and Carcassonne is ...

Tak: A Beautiful Game is a new game by Cheapass Games based on the game, Tak, in Patrick Rothfuss’s book, Wise Man’s Fear, which is the second installation to his famous series, The Kingkiller ...

The legendary board games designer James Ernest — he of Cheapass Games fame, designer of gems like Kill Dr. Lucky and Give Me the Brain — has spent the last several years working on things like ...

Already including Patrick Rothfuss, author of the awesome Kingkiller Chronicles, actress Jen Paige and Fluxx game designer Andy Looney, the quick and engaging economic strategy game Fish Cook's is an ...

Well, my week is up, and I’ve saved as a parting shot the ultimate pickup game: Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, developed by Digital Eel and published by Cheapass Games. Games take just minutes.