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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A man overlooking a gloomy landscape. Cover image for our Nioh 3 review.

Nioh 3: The Retcon Review

Team Ninja's Nioh series has come a long way. Long gone are the days of having the dull as rocks William Adams as the...
A television with the words Raccoon City on it. Cover image for our Resident Evil Requiem news story.

Resident Evil Requiem Short Film Gives Us an Intimate Look at the Biohazard Horror

With less than a month to go before Resident Evil Requiem drops, Capcom wants to remind us how terrifying the zombies can be when...
A white beach next to blue water.

All Shiny Bottle Locations in Dragon Quest VII Reimagined

At the start of the game, you'll be tasked with finding all four stone tablet fragments before you're able to progress through the story....
A black-haired lady next to an old man and a boy.

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined: The Retcon Review

I've always liked to think of Dragon Quest as the video game equivalent of a bedtime story. From the comforting music to the helpful...
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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...