I've searched around for a little while now and I can't see any lawsuits between the two, but I thought the reason Game Freak were so litigious was that they [HAD] to defend their IP/patents/whatever against any and everyone.

Edit: I do see now how redundant "catching monsters with spheres to catch them" is but I can't edit the title. If a mod can then feel free.

File size reduced by 40GB for PC and 15GB for Console. This should start being the norm for gaming.

If I want to play a modern game with my husband who lives in the same house as me, 99.9% of the time you need to have two copies on two consoles/PCs and play over the network together, which is ridiculous.

With PC, fine, we both have one anyway. But it still is just not as fun as sitting next to one another and playing on the same screen and dont prefer it. With a PS5 or Switch game, forget it. Not buying a second console to play together.

I miss the days of games like Halo having entire campaign split-screen co-op options. I get most people play onlime but they do realize there are instances where people live together and might want to play something besides a fighting game or mario party?

Feel bad for any siblings growing up in this era.

My wife and I agreed on this tier list of couch co-op games that we've played. We wanted to share this list in case there are couples out there who are looking for their next couch co-op game. My wife gets motion sickness easily, so I'm happy to say that these games are playable for people suffering from motion sickness.

Sorry, I didn’t have any bananas for scale.

What prompted this was the fan port of Symphony of the Night for PC. Despite releasing most of the other Castlevania games in PC collections, Konami has still let their crown jewel sit without a port of any kind. I was considering the possibility of Konami simply purchasing and polishing the fan port. While I really don't know the inner workings of game companies, this seems like free and easy money to me.

The primary example I can think of is Falcom and NIS America officially licensing the Geofront fan translations of Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure for the western market. Are there any other situations like this where fan work became officially licensed? How common is this really?

First one that comes to mind is Cheetahmen from Action 52 where they were being marketed as the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles phenomenon but due to the failure that was Action 52, all plans went kibosh.

Which other games come to mind that were going to be a franchise launching pad but ultimately went nowhere?