According to Venturebeat, Delaware was sacked for comments published in a recent report by Xbox specialist and journalist Dean Takahashi, which detailed the reasons behind the infamous Red Ring of Death Xbox 360 failure.
Delaware is expected to face civil charges from his former employer VMC (which tests games for Microsoft) and from the platform holder itself.
“I don’t regret it,” he told Takahashi. “I’ll fight it. If they want to come after me, bring it on.”
Delaware worked as a game tester for VMC between 2005 and 2007, during which time he reportedly “saw how Xbox Live updates embedded in retail games could turn working consoles into worthless hulks”.