deja65: If the publishers don't even want to look under their sofa for some legal papers,then we sure as hell have the right to download these masterpieces,as probably everybody who remembers them has some discs lying at their home like me ;).Cheers
I can't believe I'm defending lawyers but one of my hats is at a local office rental building with a couple one and two man law firms.
I've seen a couple of their storage units stacked to the ceiling with papers in bankers boxes.
Granted the bigger firms should be using their interns to scan and index all of those but I guess they're too busy getting coffee and making copies.
drmike: Considering the original article about the game's legal issues is dated Feb 2015 and no one has still come forward with a C&D...
Phasmid: Night Dive tried to register No One Live Forever as a trademark (probably a fishing expedition to see who would respond) and got smacked by Warner Bros, which implies they believe they have a claim to the IP at least. That itself was in 2015 though.
It's entirely possible that who owns it is known at least by the actual owners whatever they say, but that different parts are owned by different companies. It's entirely possible that, say, WB owns the IP for NOLF while Activision owns the code.
I was going to comment that the Trademark office rejected Warner extension to their non existent trademark but I just did a lookup for the "No One Lives Forever" and Night Drive, which got the trademark, has now abandoned it so I guess it's all moot.