Oculus Copyright Payout to Zenimax Halved, Ban on Rift Sales Lifted
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A new court ruling has rejected a request to ban Oculus Rift sales and reduced Facebook's $500 million payout to Zenimax by half.
READ MORE >Elon Musk Accidentally Tweets Phone Number To John Carmack, Has God of War Voicemail Message
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Elon Musk's accidentally blasted out a phone number to his millions of followers tonight.
READ MORE >"I've played Carmack's vision(s) of life on Mars... I hope Musk's plans for him are purely ..."
see all 15 commentsJohn Carmack Suing Zenimax For $22.5 Million Over Id Software Sale
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The suit has nothing to do with the recent rift between the two in the Oculus court battle.
READ MORE >"Oof how can Zenimax use that as a defence when he wasn't deemed liable for the Occulus stuff? ..."
see all 6 commentsJohn Carmack Vents About the Verdict of ZeniMax v Oculus Case [Update]
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The id Software co-founder and Oculus CTO picked apart the expert witness's testimony.
READ MORE >"I'm finding it more and more difficult to separate the actions of Zenimax with my love of ..."
see all 17 commentsJohn Carmack: VR developers are 'coasting on novelty,' and need to be 'harder on themselves'
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John Carmack didn't mince words when he took the stage to close out last week's Oculus Connect event. "We are coasting on novelty, and the...
READ MORE >"Carmack should heed his own advice. VR is, and will always be just a novelty that will never ..."
see all 25 commentsWatch the John Carmack's Oculus Connect 3 Closing Keynote Here!
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He is going to do it for Shacknews!
READ MORE >"It's nice to listen to him when he talks about stuff normal ppl understand"
see all 4 commentsNew Zenimax Lawsuit Documents Accuse John Carmack Of Theft and Palmer Luckey of Misrepresentation
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Carmack allegedly stole 'thousands of documents' from a computer at Zenimax during his final days of employment.
READ MORE >"It's not siding with the personality for me, so much as I remember following this early on in ..."
see all 39 commentsJohn Carmack becomes Oculus chief technology officer
John Carmack has long supported the Oculus Rift 3D goggles, even duct-taping a prototype together to show it off last year, and will now play a bigger role in its future. The id Software co-founder and 3D wizard has joined Oculus as its new chief technology officer--but will...
READ MORE >"It's just that gaming journalism is still not mature, so even users who've read gaming sites for ..."
see all 89 commentsExploring Virtual Reality in Doom 3 BFG
John Carmack has been talking about virtual reality a lot lately. He demoed a VR prototype at E3, and showed it again at QuakeCon after such a positive response. I got to strap on the goggles and talk to Carmack about the future of VR in games.
READ MORE >"Also hooking up with Epic and Valve sure gets easier with JC behind your project."
see all 30 commentsGet into Carmack's brain: Watch the full keynote from QuakeCon 2012
You read our tidbits from John Carmack's keynote, but there was so much more that id's front man had to say in 3.5 hours that we just couldn't get it all down. So now you can watch the full video.
READ MORE >"Rage had some great art assets, but man was it boring for some reason. I wished they made it a ..."
see all 42 commentsQuakeCon keynote tidbits: Doom 4 in 'Bethesda mode'
John Carmack spoke for almost three hours during his keynote at QuakeCon. Here's a quick run down of some of the highlights, including a brief tidbit on why there has been no info on Doom 4.
READ MORE >"God damn it, Bethesda, shutting down id's mobile efforts. "
see all 64 commentsCarmack: Nothing exciting about Windows 8
Microsoft may be excited about Windows 8, but id's John Carmack says he is there is nothing he is looking forward to in the new operating system.
READ MORE >"I should've just lol'd your original reply and moved on apparently"
see all 147 commentsCarmack sorry about performance of Rage on PC
Rage was a mess when it came out on PC in late 2011, and while patches improved the game, it still was frustrating to play. Id Software's John Carmack apologized to QuakeCon attendees on how "badly we handled the game in the PC space."
READ MORE >"was well-liked by some (not me). you're dead to me!!!! :)"
see all 89 commentsid's John Carmack answers questions at QuakeCon 2011
All ninety minutes of John Carmack's QuakeCon 2011 'question and answer' session is now available for your viewing pleasure.
READ MORE >"The problem with Android is the company behind it. Google store is a mess, according to every ..."
see all 69 commentsCarmack's Thoughts on 3D, Motion, Dedicated Servers, and Cloud Gaming
During John Carmack's QuakeCon 2010 keynote address and Q&A session, he expressed thoughts and analysis based upon various gaming trends and...
READ MORE >"uplink on broadband is still crap and is made worse by -last mile issues esp from weather ..."
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"There was no ban on Rift sales ever. Zenimax wanted a ban on Rift sales and the judge said no."
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