![]() When approached for an interview last week, I spoke with the company's new CEO Devin Milsom, a close friend of Saxton. Of the four main employees at Oovee in 2016, who I spoke to for Eurogamer's previous report, only founder Zane Saxton remains. Speaking to Eurogamer, Saber suggested the coder had only received under half of what he, Spintires' sole creator, was originally owed. And there still appears to be a question mark surrounding what Pavel was paid. Saber, meanwhile, has claimed this agreement does not change the fact that Spintires was originally developed by Pavel, a Saber employee, using Saber's own code.īut the legal battles between the companies go much further, to disputes over which company owns the rights to individual Russian tractor designs included in the game, which company owns the Spintires theme music and which company owns all manner of trademarks for Spintires and various potential related spin-offs. Watch on YouTube Mudrunner, Saber's follow-up to Spintires.īecause of that agreement, Oovee says it is now owed 25 percent of the royalties from both games - worth in the tens of millions of dollars. ![]() Speaking to Eurogamer, Oovee listed those improvements and enhancements as including the game's two full sequels, Mudrunner and Snowrunner, which Saber subsequently developed and released and which have now sold several million copies. ![]() ![]() Since then, the key complaint between the two companies appears to revolve around an August 2016 agreement in which the rights to Spintires were settled as being owned by Oovee, with Saber able to make "improvements and enhancements" under licence. For the sake of the game, and seemingly for the sake of everyone's sanity, the two sides appeared to make up and get on with things for some time - until 2018, when everything began to fall apart once more. At the time, there were complaints from both sides which variously alleged a lack of pay and progress made on overdue work. Some of this was discussed in Eurogamer's previous investigation into Spintires' background, which detailed the fractious relationship between Oovee and Pavel back in 2016. Saber, meanwhile, worked on console versions of the game and, with Pavel's help, launched two well-received sequels - Mudrunner and Snowrunner - which helped grow the series' already-dedicated fanbase. Spintires was a breakout success that netted Oovee millions in sales, though questions were subsequently raised around how much Pavel had been paid. During the making of Spintires, it was Pavel who entered into an agreement with Oovee, a company that wanted to start game publishing based in Norfolk, UK. A rough-around-the-edges technical showcase, it was the pet project and brainchild of Pavel Zagrebelnyy, a talented Russian coder who worked at Saber, and who still works there to this day. Meanwhile, dear PS4 users, don’t get your hopes too high regarding the modding on consoles, the devs abstained from giving details about the much-awaited feature.It's been eight years since indie off-road driving sim Spintires originally rolled out on Steam. The third wheeled addition to MudRunner is the E-7429, an 8×8 mammoth that’ll come in handy whenever one of your other vehicles gets stuck. Next in line is the C-6317, a six-wheel truck good as a log carrier, garage trailer tow car, fuel cistern, or repair vehicle. It will join the A-469, A-968M, and A-3151 light all-wheel-drive cars available in the game. The A-969 is a 4×4 entry-level (yet powerful) vehicle, very good for reconnaissance missions. This free DLC also comes with three new vehicles which you’ll be able to use on any unlocked map in the game: A-969, C-6317, and E-7429. Just like on the Deluge map, in The Valley you find yourself outside a garage, so extra work (for claiming one) is required before you start carrying logs. The MudRunner universe will be expanded with a new map, called The Valley, of which we know is big and full of trees. Called The Valley, the free content update is expected to hit all platforms (PC, PS4, Xbox One) as soon as February 2018. Two months after its official launch, Spintires: MudRunner announces its first DLC.
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