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Lionsgate are partnering up with video games company Kabam to produce a mobile game adaptation of their successful Hunger Games movies, fitting into the genre of a card-collecting, role-playing strategy. Within the game, players will take control of District members across Panem who have been sent on a mission to build alliances and, ultimately, help rebuild the world. The game, like with Kabam’s other gaming titles, will be entirely free to play.
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The Hunger Games movie franchise, which stars Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence as protagonist Katniss Everdeen (and is based on a series of novels of the same name by Suzanne Collins), has become a global phenomenon since the release of the first film back in 2012. The first two installments alone have grossed more than $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office, and last year’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has since become the 10th highest-grossing domestic release of all time. The next two sequels, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, will be released on November 21, 2014, and November 20, 2015 respectively.
The game will be developed in the same studio where fellow game adaptation The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth was developed, which itself ended up generating more than $100 million in revenue during its first year alone and is ongoing. It is hoped that the adaptation of The Hunger Games will achieve similar success