Spintires pulled from Steam after "major bug" makes it unplayable

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UPDATE 03/03/2016 6.45am Spintires programmer Pavel Zagrebelnyy has refuted rumours that he sabotaged his own game to strike back at the publisher he claims owes him money.
In a statement to Gamasutra, Zagrebelnyy suggested that time-related anti-piracy checks were responsible for the problem.
"Well, I don't understand who and why started the rumours of sabotaging - apparently they are based on reverse engineering Spintires code?" the puzzled programmer said of this whole ordeal. "But there is in fact a time-related bug (a self-check uses time functions to see if game wasn't cracked by pirates) which was not fixed in time (because we have little to no communicating with Oovee.)"
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