Video Game IP's are big business and they tend to become loved by the gaming communities, associated with particular consoles over time and when the original developers sometimes move on from the initial title publishers, they sometimes end up creating spiritual successors that ends up become just as big or even bigger than the original IP that inspired it a good example of that would be Bioshock.
NOLF and Croc for the win!!! Yes please, I would love either of those franchises to come back. It is a crying shame that NOLF got lost in the history of gaming, and that the license is in limbo at the moment.