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Scorpia is the pseudonym of a video game journalist who was most active from the early 1980's through 2009 and was known for writing controversial and harsh reviews of adventure and RPG games published in Computer Gaming World magazine. One of her most notable reviews was a lukewarm review of Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World that supposedly angered the game's designer, Jon Van Caneghem, so much he wrote a lengthy response defending the game and lambasting the review that was also published in the magazine. He then named an enemy after Scorpia in the game's sequel, Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra. In a 2019 interview with Kotaku UK, Scorpia stated there was never any true bad blood between her and Caneghem, but expressed disappointment that he didn't make the monster she was named after "big and nasty".
"Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games" by Matt Barton (page 189):
https://books.google.com/books?id=qPPRBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189
Kotaku UK interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210206173418/https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/09/searching-for-scorpia-whatever-happened-to-gamings-first-celebrity-critic/
https://books.google.com/books?id=qPPRBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189
Kotaku UK interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210206173418/https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/09/searching-for-scorpia-whatever-happened-to-gamings-first-celebrity-critic/
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