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

How to use every Xbox controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
Guide Tips for connecting Microsoft's Xbox controllers via USB, wireless adapter, or Bluetooth.

How to use the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
PSPad A quick walkthrough for getting the PS5 controller connected via Bluetooth or USB.

Roblox is pulling a DLSS 5, offering yet another example of a tool mistaking itself for an artist
By Wes Fenlon Published
Artless Roblox makes a new version of the AI slop pitch we've seen time and again: replacing the creative process instead of making it easier.

There are dozens of us! The best third-person shooter of all time sees HUGE* player spike on Steam after Capcom's Pragmata
By Wes Fenlon Published
That's right: Everybody's playing Vanquish.

The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial didn't even make it past jury selection before Musk started getting clowned on
By Wes Fenlon Published
News Let them fight.

I don't understand how Final Fantasy 14 can do a crossover with acclaimed anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and I'm scared to find out
By Wes Fenlon Published
News Get in the DPS queue, Shinji.

15 years ago, anyone could send PC Gamer magazine text messages. We got some weird ones
By Wes Fenlon Published
Spk Ur Mnd "Finally, an excuse to wear a dressing gown and chase down peasants with cavalry."

At least there's one tech company making me feel sane in an increasingly insane world
By Wes Fenlon Published
Not AI In the AI era, the upgradeable computer is now a subtle act of rebellion.

Some takes don't age: Back in 2009, a creative director warned about the risks of 'obsessively self-referencing' existing hit games
By Wes Fenlon Published
📖🎤 Paul Barnett was in charge of beloved MMO Warhammer Online, and is now the chief creative officer at Wargaming.

Windrose developers ask players if they 'happen to know someone at a major ISP' who can help diagnose online co-op issues
By Wes Fenlon Published
News "To be completely transparent, we’re still trying to figure out what exactly is going wrong here."

Windrose doesn't have admin commands, but here's how to customize a Windrose dedicated server
By Wes Fenlon Published
Connect 4 These are the options you do have to customize your own co-op Windrose server.

After 4 hours of pirate survival in Windrose, I'm reinstalling Sea of Thieves
By Wes Fenlon Published
I won't survive Pirates? Great. Survival? Ehhhh.

Baby Steps developer react video goes off the rails into hilarious meta-commentary about fake reactions and 'Herzogian ecstatic truth'
By Wes Fenlon Published
News "Imagine you've just watched this, which you have. How would you react if you were reacting maximally truthfully?"

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse developers are trying really, really hard to make sure you know it's a metroidvania without using the word 'metroidvania'
By Wes Fenlon Published
News What is a genre, anyway, but a miserable pile of references.

'Everybody should play every fighting game' says Invincible VS director: 'They're just fun'
By Wes Fenlon Published
Video You heard the man.

28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it
By Wes Fenlon Published
News Rest now, i486. You did good.

Zelda: Twilight Princess PC port inches closer to release with new showcase video—and modders have already added Linkle into the game
By Wes Fenlon Published
News That's the most important feature taken care of, then.

PlayStation 3 emulator gets shiny new UI for handheld PCs like the Steam Deck
By Wes Fenlon Published
News RPCS3's latest update makes it much easier to tweak settings while in-game.

Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia's own YouTube channel
By Wes Fenlon Published
That's a spicy DLSSaball.

The best tool for playing obscure old PC games now supports the sublime FMV cheese of Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars and a Lovecraftian adventure one YouTuber scored a 'terribly low 2/10'
By Wes Fenlon Published
News You've got to be morbidly curious now, right?

The best laptop games
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
Updated Great laptop games can run on low-spec PCs, fit cozily onto smaller screens, and are perfectly playable with a trackpad.

Google AI embarrasses itself when asked to perform the one simple task computers have always been good at
By Wes Fenlon Published
News If you're going to force me to talk to the computer, it better be smarter than this.

Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'
By Wes Fenlon Published
News Can you deduce precisely what Mega Crit is working on?

'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip
By Wes Fenlon Published
News This would be like us saying 'Remember the good old days of, uh, 2016?'
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