Idle, evidence-free speculation: I suspect that Gearbox completely started the project over when they got the trademarks. I suspect that they didn't use a sing

Idle, evidence-free speculation: I suspect that Gearbox completely started the project over when they got the trademarks. I suspect that they didn't use a single line of whatever morass of code in various stages of abandonment or obsolescence that they got out of acquiring the property. I think they dove in and built a game from the ground up. Perhaps there were art assets worth using, but perhaps not even that.