{"id":84715,"date":"2015-12-18T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84715"},"modified":"2015-12-18T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T13:37:55","slug":"csgo-skins-advertised-by-danny-trejo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/84715-csgo-skins-advertised-by-danny-trejo","title":{"rendered":"CS:GO skins advertised by Danny Trejo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the trade of <em>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive <\/em>skins is big money when the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Trejo\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Trejo<\/a> is advertising the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/workshop\/filedetails\/?id=575378656\" target=\"_blank\">Cuthroat Collection<\/a>\u2019 skin pack.<\/p>\n<p>You might think, \u201cWho\u2019s Danny Trejo,\u201d but he\u2019s actually got quite the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 on him. And consider this, how many other games do you know where in-game items traded earn enough to warrant the use of a Hollywood actor to market their stuff?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the advert in question:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/krJvSi683zQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Cuthroat Collection as well as video come from Chris \u201cC-LegFX\u201d Le, a video creator, FX and graphics designer who\u2019s created some fantastic looking skins for very nearly every weapon available \u2013 that includes a custom knife Trejo used to threaten the mighty Gaben.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering, Trejo knows Le through the film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3647784\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juarez 2045<\/a><\/em>, a film directed by Chris Le and starring Trejo.<\/p>\n<p>And get this, it\u2019s about a ruthless drug cartel that\u2019s using robots to kick American solider ass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fletgYSpROo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interesting as all of this is, perhaps Chris Le\u2019s best creation, at least as far as we are concerned, is another set of videos found on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/achrislefilm\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen his Super Dota Fighter Alpha videos?<\/p>\n<p>Used to advertise skins for a number of heroes, these videos demonstrate <em>Dota 2<\/em> heroes imagined as <em>Street Fighter <\/em>characters, and it\u2019s fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/246vUH3dWqM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or how about this one?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QI9aKnyzyis\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Seeing as we&#8217;re on the topic of purchasing neat stuff<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84669-this-weeks-best-gaming-deals-69.html\">This week\u2019s best gaming deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84615-some-of-the-best-local-gadgets-and-tech-deals.html\">Some of the best local gadgets and tech deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84525-top-5-family-games-to-get-this-christmas.html\">Top 5 family games to get this Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the trade of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skins is big money when the likes of Danny Trejo is advertising the \u2018Cuthroat Collection\u2019 skin pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1812,695,6385,16753,1155,1969,16755,183],"class_list":["post-84715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-advert","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive","tag-csgo","tag-danny-trejo","tag-marketing","tag-news-2","tag-skins","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}