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ZeniMax sues Oculus VR and founder Palmer Luckey

Taking a risk with the community of gamers, ZeniMax has filed a lawsuit against virtual-reality pioneer Oculus VR and its founder Palmer Luckey.

The lawsuit could stir some complicated reacitons from the game industry and fans. Gamers love VR and wouldn’t want anything to obstruct its progress. But Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR wasn’t popular with the backers of Oculus’ Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

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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.