Jago Studios is making a Garbage Pail Kids mobile game.
Jago Studios is making a Garbage Pail Kids mobile game.
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Garbage Pail Kids come out of the can on mobile

Yes, any game has a chance to be garbage. But, hey, in this case, that might be OK. Jago Studios said it has teamed up with The Topps Company to develop a mobile game based on the Garbage Pail Kids.

Jago is an indie studio in L.A., and it will make a free-to-play, card-collecting role-playing game with characters from the original Garbage Pail Kids line of trading cards and stickers that Topps issued in the 1980s. It will also have more contemporary cards, which have been selling at a rate of 1 million a year. The gameplay will be similar to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the hit team-fighting mobile game from Electronic Arts.

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