‘Kingdom Hearts III’ DLC Developers Panicking After Realizing ‘Shrek’ Not Owned By Disney

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After spending countless hours integrating elements from the popular 2001 animated fantasy film into role-playing game Kingdom Hearts III’s upcoming DLC, Japanese developer Square Enix reportedly spent Thursday thrown into a state of panic after realizing Shrek is not owned by Disney but rather by DreamWorks Animation, the studio also responsible for How To Train Your Dragon, Trolls, and Kung Fu Panda.

After spending countless hours integrating elements from the popular 2001 animated fantasy film into role-playing game’s upcoming DLC, Japanese developer Square Enix reportedly spent Thursday thrown into a state of panic after realizing Shrek is not owned by Disney but rather by DreamWorks Animation, the studio also responsible forAccording to sources, the team of programmers, animators, and engineers made the discovery mere weeks before the scheduled release of the lengthy downloadable...

“That’s six months of my life right down the drain,” added a visibly exhausted Watanabe, as she brought up an immaculately rendered level in which the Gingerbread Man must flee from a hungry Evil Queen to find safety in Shrek’s Swamp. Although Square Enix designers initially contemplated skirting DreamWorks’s copyright by making slight alterations—such as changing Shrek’s skin color to blue or renaming Puss in Boots as Mercenary Cat— sources confirmed that the studio’s legal department quickly shot down that possibility, leaving the downloadable content’s creators to consider the sobering likelihood that they had created nearly eight hours of unusable and possibly illegal gameplay sequences featuring Disney characters such...

At press time, Disney had quickly solved any problems by purchasing DreamWorks Pictures and all of its associated properties for $3.8 billion.

 

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Will this appears to be 🐂💩

Keytotruth Shrek in KH3?, sound interesting.

Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

ZingoExists

Holy shit.

Deep_Magician

😂😂😂

I've never laughed harder at a fake article before 😂

This can’t be real. Somebody made this up.

GamerArmadeus Quick, finish it before they patch him out!

Bruh

nomura: i want shrek in kh4 disney: hold up lemme just buy dreamworks

🤦‍♂️ wow if Shrek is supposed to be a surprise location then the cat is really out of the bag now especially when they just found out that Disney doesn't own that movie

Wait, is that real

Not for long!

Bossman_Rand how good would Shrek world be

Jakeronijo

Can we just settle this over a pint?

JJ61618414

sarahsm1les

KyleBosman Kyle this week at joker news on the EZA podcast Brandon Jones favorite character

It’s only a matter of time

Good thing.

I'd pay $30 for this.

This cannot be real

The Onion has layers

This has GOT to be a joke I haven't even checked the comments for confirmation and I know this is a joke

Super_GameBoi there goes the plans for that stream.

WHAT THIS DARKNESS DOIN IN MY SWAMP!!

Damn it Disney, this isn't orger, I'll be back!

Well it did feel like something was missing from ReMind

Schaffrillas That's a shame. I want a Sense of Justice video game

DesmaBR You see Sora. DLCs are like ogres.

Spongey445 Give it time.

starfallblade

k_couture14

don't worry soon Shreck will own all

Schaffrillas Wait is this a fake/joke? Im too confused to tell XDDD

Schaffrillas I thought Disney owned everything

Schaffrillas They can remove Shrek from the game, or make a deal with Comcast to buy off DreamWorks

PinDaGreat I hate you

leadalt would you but KH3 if Shrek was in it?

So you're telling me this is fake ?

*Yet

it will be

SHREKRAP

Won’t be long, probably

“Ogn” lol

Pity, Would have made the game a 10/10

lawpledge tannerbrownboy

Just postpone the release until disney owns every single one of intellectual properties

jmdornbush you see this?

Yet

Shrek is owned by the people who's logo is the kid sitting on the moon.

Tick, tick, tick...

zubatticus

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