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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Gaming

Valve Is Revisiting Steam Machine Shipping Schedule & Pricing Due to Part Shortages

Valve announced a whole slate of new hardware back in November, with the Steam Machine being the most exciting one of the bunch. While...
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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...
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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...
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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....
Fieldnotes
Zhiqing Wan

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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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...