GDC bathrobe incident reportedly sparked Laura Fryer's Xbox exit
Laura Fryer, a key Xbox figure who helped launch the console and later produced Gears of War, recounts a 2004 GDC hotel-room incident in which she was handed a bathrobe and pressured to wear it, after which she says she was reorganized out of the Xbox division; Phil Spencer later recruited her to his publishing team, effectively saving her career.