ZeniMax Media has moved forward with its lawsuit against John Carmack, Palmer Luckey, Oculus and Facebook, along the way making allegations against all parties.
A new filing has been presented by the company's lawyers which you can access on Scribd, raising the stakes in this controversial case.
Zenimax claims in the document that Carmack gave Oculus their VR tech and also went back to clean out the company after he officially left employment there.
"Instead of complying with his contract, during his last days at ZeniMax, [Carmack] copied thousands of documents from a computer at ZeniMax to a USB storage device. He never returned those files or all copies of them after his employment with ZeniMax was terminated," Zenimax's filing claims.
"In addition, after Carmack's employment with ZeniMax was terminated, he returned to ZeniMax's premises to take a customised tool for developing VR Technology belonging to ZeniMax that itself is part of ZeniMax's VR technology."
ZeniMax also sticks to its claim that Oculus Rift was built using technology developed by them, rather than by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and is therefore protected by a non-disclosure agreement Luckey allegedly signed.
"Oculus ... disseminated to the press the false and fanciful story that Luckey was the brilliant inventor of VR technology who had developed that technology in his parents' garage. In fact, that story was utterly and completely false: Luckey lacked the training, expertise, resources, or know-how to create commercially viable VR technology, his computer programming skills were rudimentary, and he relied on ZeniMax's computer program code and games to demonstrate the prototype Rift," the filing alleges.
"Nevertheless, this fraudulent tale was frequently reported in the media as fact. Luckey increasingly and falsely held himself out to the media and the public as the visionary developer of the Rift's VR Technology, which had actually been developed by ZeniMax without any substantial contribution from Luckey."
ZeniMax is not content to leave it there though, and also intends to pursue Oculus parent company Facebook. According to the suit, Facebook "was provided by Oculus with a copy of the Non-Disclosure Agreement executed by Luckey" in May, but supposedly ignored it and went on to purchase the company anyway, even though the NDA was reportedly in place.
ZeniMax is holding nothing back in this lawsuit and seems intent on chasing its losses no matter who it comes up against. Only time will tell how this plays out for them.