Wes Fenlon

Wes Fenlon

Senior Editor

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

Gen Atlas creator Fumito Ueda standing in front of promotional art for the game.
Fumito Ueda on why Gen Atlas has shooting but isn't a shooter, cool robots, and generative AI

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News "It's not to score points, but it's there so that it matters, and you feel that you do exist in that world."

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A weathered robot head lies in the sand.
Fumito Ueda knows that you're worried about Gen Atlas's framerate

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news "We did our best we could in delivering this trailer for this moment."

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Summer Game Fest orb
Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2026

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Recap Here's a recap of the 2026 SGF livestream.

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Anthony Stewart Head, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died

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News The British actor was 72.

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Remember when Star Wars and Command & Conquer ruled PC gaming? June in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago

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From the archives Here's what was happening in PC gaming in June 1996, 2006 and 2016.

From the archives
Ace Combat's developers have been making games about fighter jets for 30 years, but they've never gotten to fly in one

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News Anyone know how to rent an F-16 for a weekend?

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Ace Combat 8 pilots
Ace Combat director says 'I've been doing this for 30 years, so I know exactly how hard we're going'—and after playing it, I can confirm Ace Combat 8 goes extremely hard

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Hands-on Wings of Theve is more Ace Combat. Emphasis on the *more.*

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Hands-on
Bandai Namco just stealth announced that one of the coolest Ace Combat games is coming to PC for the first time as a pre-order freebie

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News Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War returns from the PlayStation 2.

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Ikumi Nakamura does the Fox Window pose
Now that we're living in a KPop Demon Hunters and Jujutsu Kaisen world, yokai-smiting action game Kemuri should be a slam dunk

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News Ikumi Nakamura's next game finally breaks cover.

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Pragmata director Yonghee Cho says it's not a sad dad game for a very simple reason: 'I'm not a sad dad, I'm a very happy dad'

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News That settles that.

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Guild Wars teaser has fans hyped up about a potential Guild Wars 3 announcement, and ArenaNet isn't outright denying it

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News Signs point to maybe.

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Brutalist bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss
Steam may have just thrown its weight behind bullet heaven, but last week's standout game was a one-of-a-kind bullet hell FPS

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HELLISH Luna Abyss was a long time coming, but I'm already hoping for more of its kind.

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HELLISH
Why play Wordle when you could be playing this new word puzzle game that rewards you with frogs?

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News It's Ribbit!

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There is no discovery on this earth more pure than a closet full of your dad's '90s big box PC games

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News Those really were the days.

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Black Flag Resynced ships do battle
Sorry, Black Flag fans: the new Assassin's Creed remake isn't adding any more legendary ship battles

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News The one thing I hoped to see more of.

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a textbook remaster

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Sails up The spitting image of the game I remember, despite how much it's actually changed.

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Sails up
In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?

By Wes Fenlon Published

🕵️ Re-examining an old quote from Valve's Gabe Newell reveals a big gap in what we know about Doom's popularity.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is a good roguelite shooter, but a little less special than the game that spawned it

By Wes Fenlon Published

Undershot Rogue Core is a bit too conservative for its own good.

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Austin Wintory and Troy Baker laughing during an interview
Troy Baker and Austin Wintory talk becoming Indiana Jones and writing death metal polkas for Counter-Strike

By Wes Fenlon Published

Video The key to a great artistic collaboration? Saying yes to every wild idea.

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Assassin's Creed: Black Flag star Matt Ryan says the term 'voice actor' is outdated: 'You see the performances in the eyes, it blows me away'

By Wes Fenlon Published

"We need to rejig the vernacular."

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It's official: Steam decrees 'bullet heaven' the name of the Vampire Survivors genre

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Wuxia, desktop companion, cleaning, and capybaras all also got official Steam tags.

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Before landing the lead role in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show

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News Things worked out pretty well for the Edward Kenway actor.

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I'm tired of everything getting turned into a roguelite, but I'll make an exception for pinball

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Uh oh My weakness has been laser targeted.

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Sega has canceled its live service 'Super Game' due to 'intensifying market competition,' and I really, really hope it's a sign that the industry is finally correcting itself

By Wes Fenlon Published

Day breaks Years of catastrophic bets on F2P mega hits may finally be subsiding.

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Isowulf, an isometric Wolfenstein 3D mod
Everyone knows Wolfenstein 3D made the FPS a phenomenon. What this mod presupposes is… what if it didn't?

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News Isowulf does a remarkably faithful job transforming Wolfenstein 3D into an isometric shooter.

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