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• "I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence", expert witness testimony "ridiculous": John Carmack responds to Zenimax

  Oculus CTO John Carmack has fired back after Zenimax detailed the former Id Software boss’s alleged misconduct.

• Facebook founder takes the stand in ZeniMax vs Oculus trial, denies allegations of stolen tech

  The ZeniMax Media lawsuit against Oculus has finally gone to trial, and this week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stand denying allegations Oculus stole intellectual property from the firm. Not to mention he had never even heard of ZeniMax before the lawsuit.

• Bethesda parent claims John Carmack went back to the office after quitting to take secret VR tech

  The gloves are off in ZeniMax’s suit against John Carmack, Palmer Luckey, Oculus and Facebook, with a series of allegations levelled against all parties.

• id Software co-founder John Carmack to receive BAFTA Fellowship

  id Software co-founder and Oculus VR as chief technology officer John Carmack is to receive a BAFTA Fellowship at its British Academy Games Awards next month.

• Minecraft VR "coming along great", says Oculus CTO

  Minecraft in virtual reality is really happening. Try not to throw up from excitement.

• People who try Oculus Rift "walk out a believer", says John Carmack

  Oculus Rift CTO John Carmack has described the experience of first trying out his company’s take on virtual reality in, uh, pretty glowing terms.

• John Carmack's nine-year-old son made a game, go play it

  Legendary developer John Carmack has a son named Ryan. Ryan is nine years old, and he just made a game in Unity.

• Where are they now? The dissipation of id Software

  Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and Rage. With three of the biggest shooter properties in gaming (and also another one), id Software has clearly housed some of the industry’s brightest stars. Where is this talent now?

• Bethesda owner is suing Oculus VR over trade secrets

  ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Fallout and Elder Scrolls developer, Bethesda, has filed a lawsuit against Oculus VR today, accusing Oculus of “wrongfully taking” the firm’s intellectual property.

• Oculus issues statement regarding the ZeniMax legal notice

  Following on from last week’s news that ZeniMax had filed a legal notice, accusing John Carmack of taking the “firm’s intellectual property with him to Oculus,” Oculus has now issued a statement to clarify a few points.

• John Carmack accused of taking "ZeniMax's intellectual property with him to Oculus"

  ZeniMax has filed a legal notice against id Software founder John Carmack, accusing him of taking “ZeniMax’s intellectual property with him to Oculus,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

• Oculus acquisition: Carmack still coding for VR firm as developers weigh-in on news

  Facebook’s acquisition of virtual reality firm Oculus VR stunned many gamers and companies last night, prompting a mass reaction online. Several developers have stepped forward to comment on the matter, including id Software founder John Carmack, who has confirmed he is still onboard with the firm.

• Carmack left id after Zenimax turned down VR proposal

  John Carmack attempted to convince id Software and parent company Zenimax Media to develop games for virtual reality, and left the company he helped found when his proposal was knocked back.

• Oculus Rift developing games internally, Carmack on board

  Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and Rage creative John Carmack is lending his talents to Oculus Rift’s internal games development program.

• Carmack: "So much you can still do" with PS3, Xbox 360

  Id Software founder turned Oculus Rift CTO John Carmack is concerned that the rush to embrace new generation hardware has left the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360’s potential wasted.

• John Carmack resigns as technical director at id Software, now full-time with Oculus VR

  John Carmack is now working full time at Oculus VR, thus leaving his position as technical director at the company he founded, id Software.

• Carmack predicts "ten times the performance" from GPUs in five years

  Graphics tech guru John Carmack sees a very bright future for PC gaming just a few years into the future, predicting huge leaps in GPU output before the end of the coming console generation.

• Sony and Microsoft may be "hostile" to new AMD tech, says Carmack

  AMD’s new Mantle API may give developer’s a similar level of access to PC architecture as on consoles, and tech guru John Carmack expects Sony and Microsoft to react poorly.

• Carmack keen on mobile SDK for Oculus Rift

  The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset could soon have Android support. John Carmack, the new CTO of Oculus, is working on the Rift’s SDK and is really pushing the company’s mobile effort.