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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Silent Hill: Townfall: The Retcon Review

About four hours into Silent Hill: Townfall, I was dropped into a surgery room in the St. Amelia Medical Centre, forced to read out...
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Witch the Showdown Is Going to Be My GTA VI Palette Cleanser in November

I don't get many opportunities to boast about being the first to do something. The last and only time that happened, it was when...
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Dragon’s Dogma II: Dark Arisen Is Basically More Dragon’s Dogma, & That’s a Good Thing

Capcom had plenty of cool titles on offer when I was finalizing my appointment details with them at Tokyo Game Show 2026. I guess...
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Marvel’s Wolverine: The Retcon Review

If there ever was a comic book hero synonymous with "anger issues", it would be Wolverine. Across all of his appearances in multiple forms...
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Pluribus Finally Shows Us that Humanity Is Truly Lost

This article contains spoilers for Pluribus episode 5.In its first four episodes, Pluribus opened up a fascinating debate about whether Carol or the hivemind...
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What Did Carol See in the Bags in Pluribus Episode 5?

After a little bit of a slower start, Pluribus is finally starting to dole out some answers about the hivemind and how everything works....
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Demonschool: The Retcon Review

I'm on turn 3. If I can wipe out five more demons this round, I'll be golden. If I fail, well, there's always another...
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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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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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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...