Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing began her video game journey in 1996, when her dad introduced her to Metal Gear, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill — and the rest, as they say, is history. She was an editor at The Escapist, Destructoid, and Twinfinite before starting up Retcon.
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The Steam Machine’s $1,000 Price Tag Is Disappointing, But I Get It

Back when Valve first announced the Steam Machine in November 2025, I was excited about it. I'm certainly not the target demographic for this...
A man with a red scarf and hat against a blue sky backdrop. Cover image for our Adventures of Elliot review.

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales: The Retcon Review

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is Square Enix's attempt at applying its 2D-HD aesthetic to the Zelda-like action RPG genre in a...
A woman holding a glass. Cover image for our Pluribus Season 2 story.

Pluribus Season 2 Gets an Update; “We’ll Learn More About the Atom Bomb”

Pluribus thoroughly impressed me with its debut season and I, like many others, am getting extremely antsy waiting for a second season. Well, here's...
A red tiled floor with the words "Order of the Sinking Star".

Order of the Sinking Star Has Already Wormed its Way into My Brain

I was keenly aware of how beloved Jonathan Blow's games were, but nothing quite prepared me for what Order of the Sinking Star had...
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Pluribus Is Shaping Up to Be the Queer Heroine Story I...

Taken at face value, Pluribus' logline of "The most miserable person on Earth must save humanity from happiness" can be seen as an attempt...
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A woman holding a grenade in Pluribus.

Pluribus Is Apple TV’s Biggest Series Launch

It was inevitable that Vince Gilligan's next project would garner a lot of attention, whatever it ended up being. After a successful bidding war,...
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A woman sitting in a truck in Pluribus.

Pluribus Writer Says the Show Would “Become Meaningless” If Everything Was...

Pluribus is a sci-fi TV show on Apple TV that revolves around a virus that has affected all of humanity and merged everyone into...
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A girl with pink hair in Demonschool.

Demonschool Proves We Need More Small Numbers in RPGs

Every person with a lizard brain lives by this one cardinal rule. The bigger the number, the better you are. It's just basic math....
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A back of a girl with short black hair in Silent Hill f.

Whoa, Silent Hill f Actually Got Nominated for Stuff at The...

The horror genre tends not to do very well at award shows. Parasite and The Substance were the exception, not the rule. And the...
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A close-up of a man holding a sword against a purple backdrop in FFXIV.

Yoshi-P Wants to “Reinvent” Final Fantasy XIV For the Second Time

The story of Final Fantasy XIV is a truly fascinating one. Square Enix's MMORPG was originally released in 2010 and largely panned by critics...