It's a small company with only a handful of employees. Publisher Oovee is registered in Gorleston, near the Norfolk coast. "It can make precisely zero mph feel like knuckle-splintering stuff." "Spintires can make a set-piece out of a puddle," Chris Donlan wrote of the game back in 2014. Spintires is a detailed driving simulation where you must haul trucks and other vehicles over rough off-road terrain, through mud and rivers and whatever else lies in your way. Now, Eurogamer has spoken to both Oovee and Pavel in a bid to find out what had happened, and to discover what future - if any - Spintires still has in store.
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This time, whether Oovee and Pavel suddenly became BFFs again or not, it looked like Spintires had been completely run off the road. The UK government had served notice it would dissolve, as the company had failed to declare its finances.
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Then, at the beginning of February, concerned Spintires fans spotted something even more serious. The two eventually shook hands and Spintires was updated further over the course of last year, but by the end of 2015 their relationship was back on the rocks. But then development stalled and Spintires fell off the radar when British publisher Oovee and Russian programmer Pavel Zagrebelnyy had a bust up. It was one of Eurogamer's favourite games of 2014, the year it took Steam by storm.
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Off-road driving simulation Spintires has had a rough ride.