
Wes Fenlon
Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games.
When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a problem), he's probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. 50% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific).
His lasting legacy on this earth may be using WASD wrong for his entire life.
Latest articles by Wes Fenlon

Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Free keys An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.
Castlevania is finally back, and it's in exactly the right hands
By Wes Fenlon published
News Dead Cells studios Evil Empire and Motion Twin are working on a new 2D Castlevania adventure, Belmont's Curse.

Team Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation
By Wes Fenlon published
News Dead or Alive 6 is also getting a big update.

'There's no reason for Discord to comply in advance' with social media age verification laws instead of 'fighting for their users' says EFF expert
By Wes Fenlon published
News Discord's plan to require face scans or ID verification is capitulation to overbearing legislation that's still far from universal.

16 days after Highguard's launch, the studio has laid off 'most of the staff'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Just before launch, Highguard devs told PC Gamer it wouldn't need huge player numbers to succeed.

Jason Momoa and Fast & Furious director Justin Lin are teaming up to make a Helldivers movie
By Wes Fenlon published
News The real question: Will the Beastie Boys make it onto the soundtrack?

Microsoft has revoked the DMCA takedown that forced an indie Minecraft-like off Steam
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News Microsoft claimed the indie game uses "Minecraft content."

Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51's studio doesn't benefit much from sales of its old games: 'It's really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Romeo Is a Dead Man is Grasshopper Manufacture's first new self-published release on Steam.

Suda51 says his new game isn't a No More Heroes sequel because series star Travis Touchdown needed a break: 'I could write Travis all day, but dude is exhausted'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Romeo Is a Dead Man is Grasshopper's first wholly original action game in years.

Nioh 3 director says Lies of P was a major source of inspiration while crafting the samurai soulslike's yokai bosses: 'It was great stimulation'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Shoutout to puppets.

The best free PC games
By Shaun Prescott last updated
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.

The game that coined the term 'visual novel' just got its first-ever fan translation for its 30th anniversary
By Wes Fenlon published
News Shizuku, an adult game released in 1996, birthed a whole new genre. Kinda.

'It's Whac-a-Mole of terror for the city you love:' Gaming channel MinnMax asks viewers to 'share what's happening to residents in Minneapolis, Minnesota when 3,000 ICE agents storm the city'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Viewers show overwhelming support for the gaming outlet's stance on ICE.

13 years after the disappointment of Resident Evil 6, Capcom is finally fusing survival horror and all-out action again—and this time I think it worked
By Wes Fenlon published
Undead Kennedys Resident Evil Requiem is in fine forms, both new and old.

Fable has 1,000 'handcrafted' NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them
By Wes Fenlon published
News Polygamy achievement unlocked?

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome
By Wes Fenlon published
News Just the Browser removes a bunch of AI cruft and telemetry garbage, and it's incredibly easy to use. It supports Firefox and Edge, too!

Google's AI overview search results are so dumb, it took author Chuck Wendig just weeks to convince it he has a cat named 'Sir Mewlington Von Pissbreath' that can speak 'limited Cantonese'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Chuck Wendig does not have a cat.

The best co-op games to drag your pals into
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.

The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.

Yakuza Kiwami 3 includes the first official emulation of 2 bizarro Sega arcade games, including one like Crazy Taxi but you're racing an ambulance to the hospital before a patient bleeds to death
By Wes Fenlon published
News Forget all that yakuza drama. Time to play some obscure arcade games.

Yakuza Kiwami 3's new expansion basically turns it into a breakneck roguelite dungeon crawl, complete with random drops and goofy sidekicks
By Wes Fenlon published
Roguepunch It's like fight club, only you're Yakuza Batman.

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Switch pad The easiest way to connect Nintendo's Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers to your PC using Bluetooth or USB.

An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux
By Wes Fenlon published
News Windows 8? In 2026? These really might be the end times.
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