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GameStop Employee Canned for RapeLay Comments?

By pete_gallagher

Being interviewed for an article on RapeLay may have cost a GameStop employee his job.

GameStop employee Derek Littlejohn was interviewed for a piece on the controversial game which ran in the Point Park University publication The Globe. Littlejohn was quoted in the story stating, 'I've both heard about and played RapeLay myself, and I find it as nothing more than a game.'

Littlejohn went on to offer some theories on Japanese culture before discussing banned games, saying, 'It's relatively easy to pirate these games, when all one has to do is type in the name of what they want and add ‘torrent.'" He added, "Usually, some sort of link turns up.'

GameRant claims LittleJohn, employed for about two years by GameStop in Oakland, was fired shortly after the article was published.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).