Apparently ZeniMax ain’t feeling John Carmack. Ain’t feeling him in the least. The ‘Mack Daddy’s (I fucking suck, I know) former company is accusing the co-creator of Doom and Quake of stealing technology on his way out the door to Oculus. Who is right? Who is wrong? What’s the applicable shade of gray? Who cares. Watching Big Dumb Companies fight is fun for me.

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John Carmack was a visionary back in the day. Doom. Quake. The engines for both. And for those wondrous developments he holds my eternal appreciation. However, I can’t really get up for anything he’s done in…fourteen years? So him developing the Oculus Rift is like announcing John Carpenter is making a new movie. Classic dude. Time has passed. Am I alone?

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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.

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