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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Hideo Kojima Reassures Scaredy Cats That They, Too, Will Be Able to Play OD

This may very well end up being the best news I'll hear all week. As a fan of Hideo Kojima's works — I have...
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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...
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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...
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Starting Cyberpunk 2077 The Way God Intended — As a Corpo...

Fieldnotes is a weekly column where I drop into a new (or old) game and report back with raw notes, sharp takes, unfiltered, and sometimes...
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Batman: Arkham Shadow: The Retcon Review

Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum was lauded as quite possibly the best superhero video game ever made when it released in 2009. Featuring a compelling story...
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Gachiakuta Probably Has Something Meaningful to Say Under All the Garbage

I can be really hard to please when it comes to anime, especially with shonen anime. All the shouting, the minutes-long exposition required before...
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Death Stranding 2 Complete Weapons Guide

Death Stranding 2 may be all about the deliveries, but you can't escape combat either. Whether you're fighting humans or BTs, you're going to...
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A woman in a dress as the Artist Lauren Tsai in Death Stranding 2.

Death Stranding 2 Artist Location (Lauren Tsai)

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach features a fair number of celebrity cameos and appearances, but some of them are missable. In particular, Lauren...
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Hades II Has Just Gotten Patch 10 — The Final One...

It's almost time! Just a few weeks ago, Supergiant Games released The Unseen Update for Hades II, which brought about quite a lot of...