John Carmack gets his BAFTA Fellowhip award for his work in gaming.
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Gaming legend John Carmack: A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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John Carmack is a legend in video game programming, and he received a high award from the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) on Friday. He gave a short acceptance speech and did an interview that should inspire the whole game industry to do greater things. We’ve posted the video below, and pulled a few choice quotes from it.

Carmack has been involved in a lot of pioneering work, from establishing the first-person shooter genre with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom to helping create the Samsung Gear VR virtual reality headset that debuted last fall. Carmack is currently chief technology officer at Oculus VR, which Facebook acquired for $2 billion in 2014, and he helped create the Oculus Rift headset that debuted for the PC on March 28.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.