Oculus VR fires back at ZeniMax over latest lawsuit allegations

ZeniMax isn’t backing off the lawsuit it originally filed in 2014 against Oculus VR and Facebook. Instead, the publisher is making some new allegations.

ZeniMax, which owns Fallout publisher Bethesda, names Oculus chief executive Brendan Iribe and chief technology officer John Carmack as defendants in the amended complaint (as first reported by Game Informer). Carmack was previously a chief executive at id Software, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZeniMax and the developer of Doom. ZeniMax alleges that Carmack inappropriately copied documents and took them with him after leaving. The company also claims that ZeniMax invented modern virtual reality with almost no input from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who is widely credited with many of the early breakthroughs that power the Rift and Vive headsets.