iD Software -cofounder JOHN CARMACK has RESIGNED. So it goes.

John Carmack is a beast. Created the engines that powered Doom, Quake, and countless other games. Dude is also sort of a douchebag. (Read Masters of Doom. Awesome book.) But whatever. The man who Really Hasn’t Made A Good Game In Eons has left the company he helped found. To work on the Oculus Rift.

And shit.

John Carmack, co-founder and technical director at id Software, has left the company to focus his full-time attention on his role as chief technical officer at Oculus VR, according to a statement provided by id Software and Bethesda Softworks.

“John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio,” reads a statement from Tim Willits, studio director at id Software. “John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.”

“I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn’t work out,” Carmack wrote on Twitter. “Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.”

Carmack, a programmer at id who co-created Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, also founded Armadillo Aerospace in 2000. He was an early evangelist of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and pledged support for the device in Doom 4.

[Polygon]

Man. First WimAmp, and now this? All sorts of bummer passing of the torch this week. Carmack may be a choad, but he was Doom’s choad. Fare thee well, sir!