I don’t understand the connection. Who are “you guys”?

As bizarrely stupid as that was (they can’t be ok emotionally), they’re not wrong. In a perfect world people would boycott anti-consumer corporations and they would get the loud and clear message that they need to cut out the asshatery, and copyright and IP laws would be rewritten the world over. We do not live in a…

I have a theory that they did it because a lot of the original developers at Konami who are used to the Fox Engine are gone, and Unreal is easier for new hires/contractors to pick up.

Its not a remaster. It is a port of the PS1 version that runs at a higher resolution. 

You really need to development a sense of how games work. While Nightdive is a company that does magnificent work, they are remastering games produced in the west on highly popular and well distributed game engines.

Go and look back at how successful any sizable game studio was before being acquired by Microsoft vs. afterward. Go on, I’ll wait.

In your first example you’re confusing copyright with trademark. You do have to consistently defend trademarks to keep them, you have no such obligation to retain copyright.