14 Nov She was 18! -Gearbox replied to the accusations of the company’s former

Original story briefly: in November 2018 Studio Gearbox I sued its ex-adocator- Wade Callander (Wade Callender). The company accused him of fraud and violation of fiducial obligations. Callander filed a response of a lawsuit of which he accused the chapter Gearbox Randy Pitchford (Randy Pitchford) in the following acts:

• Secret receipt of a bonus of $ 12,000,000,
• loss of flash drives with confidential data of the company and its partners, on which children’s pornography was also supposedly stored,
• Organizations of events at which adult men, according to him, undressed to minors to entertain the chapter Gearbox.

ARS Technica discovered a www.privecasinouk.org/ podcast with the participation Pitchford, recorded on December 22, 2018 – a day after filing a return claim Callander. The chapter is in the podcast Gearbox mentions a lost flash drive, which allegedly contained children’s porn. He says that on the USB drive there was a video in the genre of erotic video chat. Pitchford With some unhealthy enthusiasm, he says that he tried to understand how the author of the video managed to fake female ejaculation. “I realized that this is not a sex worker. This is a damn wizard ", – said Pitchford. To this he added that porn was on the verge of illegality: the girl from the video was barely 18 years old.

As reported Callander, A restaurant employee who found a flash drive contacted the company to return the lost data – confidential documents of the studio and its partners. Ex-vocabulary Gearbox I asked the company to make a copy of the drive to make sure of its contents and, if necessary, take measures. According to Callander, He intervened Pitchford, who took the flash drive and demanded to destroy its copy.

Also Gearbox published a statement in which she said that she would submit to Callander A complaint to the collegium of Texas lawyers – for the accusations inappropriate for reality. According to the studio, their former lawyer deliberately used the legal language in the lawsuit to hide his lies and cause the company to damage.

The statement directed by Kotaku also said that Pitchford Together with his wife, he really arranged ideas – in his lawsuit Callander calls them "peacock parties". However, according to Gearbox, Pitchfords They never called their events so, and the show themselves recorded – no adult men undressing in front of minors were there.

The company representative adds that some of the most famous and respected performers in the world took part in the events. In addition, prominent representatives of the local community and larger media were attended by the show.

After the release of the Kotaku material about this story, the former vice president Gearbox, David Eddings (David Eddings), published a mysterious tweet that reads: "Yes, this is true". For now Eddings did not specify what he had in mind.