{"id":83614,"date":"2026-06-03T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83614"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:37:04","slug":"monopoly-go-is-crossing-over-with-the-simpsons-for-a-battle-of-the-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83614","title":{"rendered":"Monopoly Go Is Crossing Over With The Simpsons For A Battle Of The Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new battle of the billionaires kicks off this week in Monopoly Go, as the game&#8217;s mustachioed mascot takes on Springfield&#8217;s sun-blocking tyrant from The Simpsons, Mr. Burns.\u00a0Scopely has announced a Simpsons crossover in\u00a0Monopoly Go, which has been created in partnership with the team behind the long-running animated series. Starting June 3 and continuing through July 29, the event will see iconic Springfield locations given a Monopoly Go makeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To give you an idea of just how big a deal the crossover is, People Magazine has even produced two covers starring the fictional billionaires, and GameSpot can exclusively reveal them. Both covers feature a few cheeky references to the duo, their wealth, and their attempts to pass themselves off as a regular person who just so happens to have an obscene amount of wealth&#8211;not too far removed from our current reality:<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1778267\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"1024\" width=\"763\" data-id=\"1778267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Simpsons-1.jpg?w=763\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1778267\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1778266\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"1024\" width=\"763\" data-id=\"1778266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Simpsons-2.jpg?w=763\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1778266\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re a magazine collector and you want to add these to your library, these issues of People Magazine will hit newsstands on June 5. Subscribers should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new battle of the billionaires kicks off this week in Monopoly Go, as the game&#8217;s mustachioed mascot takes on Springfield&#8217;s sun-blocking tyrant from The Simpsons, Mr. Burns.\u00a0Scopely has announced a Simpsons crossover in\u00a0Monopoly Go, which has been created in partnership with the team behind the long-running animated series. Starting June 3 and continuing through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":83616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83617,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83614\/revisions\/83617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}