It was also a big, lucrativevideo gamefranchise.

All told, there have been north of 50 games including Shrek and Company.

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That’s a lot, and most of them weren’t good.

But Shrek’s heyday was the ’00s and that was the prime decade for movie tie-in games.

DreamWorks, in particular, was pumping themout.

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What Happened To Tie-In Games?

This was the business.

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But something started to happen at the end of the ’00s, and kicked into overdrive in the ’10s.

In 2009, Rocksteady releasedBatman: Arkham Asylum.

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Collage image of key art from Shrek games, including Shrek Smash n' Crash Racing and Shrek SuperSlam.

Is this a good development?

On the one hand, licensed games getting better is obviously good.

Could Shrek 5 mean a return for fighting games and kart racers based on movies?

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