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John Carmack receives the BAFTA Fellowship | BAFTA Games Awards 2016

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John Carmack accepts the BAFTA Fellowship award, reflecting on his career in game programming and virtual reality.

Leading game programmer and virtual reality engineer John Carmack is honoured with the Fellowship, the highest accolade given by BAFTA, in recognition of his outstanding and exceptional contribution games. Find out more about Carmack's career: bafta.org/games/awards/jo... See the full list of winners from the British Academy Games Awards in 2016: bafta.org/games/awards/ga... --- Stay up to date with the latest news from BAFTA: Twitter: @BAFTA: twitter.com/BAFTA @BAFTAGuru: twitter.com/BAFTAGuru @BAFTAGames: twitter.com/BAFTAGames Facebook: facebook.com/bafta Instagram: instagram.com/bafta Tumblr: Film: bafta-film.tumblr.com/ TV: bafta-television.tumblr.com/ Games: bafta-games.tumblr.com/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/bafta/ Google+ : plus.google.com/+BAFTA/posts Sign up to receive our emails: guru.bafta.org/newsletter And don't forget you can also subscribe to our podcasts: iTunes: bit.ly/Vz84HI Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/bafta Websites: bafta.org/guru bafta.org bafta.org/ygd

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…hough the prosecutions smoking gun was something he posted that he could easily refute. He had to pay id some money, however id never payed him some money from stocks he owed. It turned into a horrible petty dispute and the entire game industry suffers for it. He won a lifetime achievement award in a beautiful ceremony which is also on youtube (link to this video We kind of lost a giant, then the lawyers kicked him in the ass on the way out. Nevermind that he created this entire computer gaming thing, which indirectly drove the entire computing industry. He even had a huge hand in creating the video card market with the whole glide/3dfx/openGL thing during the Quake2 days. Then again with the vi…
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