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Oculus CTO John Carmack sues ZeniMax Media for $22.5 million

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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John Carmack’s legal fight with ZeniMax Media widened as the legendary game developer and current chief technology officer of Facebook’s Oculus division filed a lawsuit against ZeniMax saying it owes him more than $22.5 million.

The dispute sheds even more light on the feud between Carmack, co-creator of games such as Doom and Quake, and ZeniMax, which separately sued Carmack and Oculus over the alleged theft of virtual reality technology that Carmack allegedly developed while at id Software, which ZeniMax bought in 2009. ZeniMax recently won a $500 million court case with Oculus over the alleged infringements.

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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.