Mobile gaming obsession Monopoly Go is teaming up with Star Wars so as to add a little science fiction sauce to its real estate dice-rolling. The collaboration, introduced at this time at Star Wars Celebration in Japan, will run from May 1 – July 2 and takes inspiration from occasions from Skywalker Saga and The Mandalorian.
As effectively as giving some beloved Star Wars characters a cute cartoon makeover, the Star Wars season on Monopoly Go will add a Star Wars Go sticker album to fill, podracing within the Mos Espa Grand Arena, and collectible in-game objects like tokens, shields and emojis. Plus you get to benefit from the weirdness of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Han Solo, R2D2, Yoda, Anakin Skywalker and Qui-Gon Jinn hanging out Mr Monopoly, AKA Rich Uncle Pennybags.
It's not the primary time Monopoly Go has carried out a mash-up, final September Marvel characters obtained Monopolized with Spider-Man, Wolverine, and the Avengers all making an look.
Publisher Scopely additionally just lately acquired the Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now groups as half of a deal with Niantic.
According to a report from our sister website GamesIndustry.biz, Monopoly Go was ranked the top game for consumer spending in 2024, bringing in a "gold toilets for everyone on the team" $2.47 billion jackpot. In 2024 Scopely additionally reported 150 million downloads and 10 million every day customers.
Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games at IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a skilled nerd since 2006 when she obtained her begin on Official PlayStation Magazine within the UK, and has since labored for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror motion pictures, horror video games, and French Bulldogs. Those additional wrinkles on her face are because of going time blind and staying up too late ending each sidequest in RPGs like Fallout and Witcher 3.