Tag: Trading Cards

The Saint Mort Show Episode 067: Joe Starr

by Saintmort

I met Joe Starr when I lived in Los Angeles a few years ago. We worked on a few comedy shows while I was out there and occasionally hung out, it was great to have him on the podcast finally. The bad news is we don’t talk much about his stand-up comedy album Heroic Effort now available on iTunes and Bandcamp. The good news is we talk about Wrestling for about 30-40 minutes.

The intro music contains the song Doombots by Johnny Neutrino & the Secret Weapon from their self-titled demo.

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Introducing The Steam Trading Card System

by Shane O'Hare

Valve is a company that likes to take risks and innovates in ways other companies don’t. Their inventory and item crafting system for Team Fortress 2 changed how the community interacted. Now it appears that they are doing it again. This time with, trading cards? We got a Press Release from Valve today and it reads:

 

May 15, 2013 — Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Steam Trading Cards, a new service that rewards gamers for gaming on Steam.

 

Released in beta today, Steam Trading Cards allows customers to earn Steam rewards for playing the games they love. Those who participate will receive game-specific trading cards that can be collected to earn rewards such as game badges, profile backgrounds, emoticons, coupons, and more.

 

The group of titles participating in the Steam Trading Cards beta includes Don’t Starve, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2 and Half-Life 2. The service will expand over the coming months to include many more titles on Steam.

Some of the available cards for CS: GO
Some of the available cards for CS: GO

They seem like they are taking what they did with TF2 and bringing it to the entire system. Some of the cards can be obtained just by playing the game while some need to be collected through other means.

The biggest feature that this is bringing is the Badge Crafting. Players can take certain cards they’ve collected and craft them into badges. Badges give the player experience points that level up their Steam Profile. This gives them on gameplay bonuses like avatars, emoticons for chat and more friend slots. The big feature you can get are random rewards. These can range from profile showcases for certain games, background image wallpapers all the way up to free DLC and discount coupons.

For more information on the new cards or to sign up for the beta head on over to the official trading card page.

WTF News Of The Week: Garbage Pail Kids Movie Being Remade

by Eric Diaz

If there was any further proof needed that the world was indeed ending in December of this year, this news might seal the deal. The Garbage Pail Kids movie is being remade. And before you check your calendar, April 1st is still a few weeks away.

For those of you too young to remember, Garbage Pail Kids were a series of trading cards produced by Topps, with gross out versions of the then popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. When I was in the fifth and sixth grade, these cards were the shit. Everyone traded them, it was a minor obsession among kids at the time (think pogs, you children of the 90’s) Schools banned the cards, making us want to trade them and collect them even more. Debuting in 1985, the cards were all the rage for about two years, and then everyone stopped caring about them, right around the time the target demographic discovered masturbation.

I just might have had this sticker on my binder, circa 1986.

So in 1987, right as the fad was about to die, the Garbage Pail Kids live action movie was released on an unsuspecting and undeserving world. It was an huge critical and commercial flop, barely making $1 million dollars at the box office. Box office aside, it is also one of the worst movies ever made. Like…really, really bad. So of course it is about to be remade.

The man behind this genius idea is Michael Eisner. Yes, the same Eisner who once saved the Walt Disney company from irrelevancy in the 80’s, and then was ousted for staying way past his expiration date. Eisner bought the TOPPS trading card company a few years back, and is now trying to ring anything he can out of it. Someone named PES (yes, that’s their name) known for making youtube videos and whatnot, is set to direct. Sure, why not.

Who is the market for this movie supposed to be? People my age realized this shit was stupid around the time we got pubes, and younger folk pretty much have no idea what Garbage Pail Kids are. I’m not even sure the target demo knows what Cabbage Patch Kids even are. More and more I think those ancient Mayans were on to something.