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

Suda51 posing in front of a TV showing Romeo Is a Dead Man
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'

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News Romeo Is a Dead Man is Grasshopper Manufacture's first new self-published release on Steam.

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No More Heroes 3 key art of Travis Touchdown facing off against an angry enemy
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'

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News Romeo Is a Dead Man is Grasshopper's first wholly original action game in years.

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Shizuku pixel art of a school girl standing on a roof at sunset
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.

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MinnMax podcasters discuss the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, Minnesota
'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.

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Resident Evil Requiem survival horror
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.

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Fable has 1,000 'handcrafted' NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Polygamy achievement unlocked?

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Just the Browser showing an example browser tab with no mess on it
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!

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An anthropomorphic cat from the movie Cats holding a can of sparkly catnip
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.

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Yakuza Kiwami 3 masked figure from Survival Hell
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.

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Emergency Call Ambulance arcade game with parademics rushing towards the screen and two ambulances in the background
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.

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Switch 2 Pro Controller front
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.

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Windows 8 style desktop with the Linux Tux mascot in the foreground
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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A magnifying glass looking at a note and a photo of a woman in a dark room
Blue Prince, the best game of 2025 (don't check our GOTY just trust me) is on sale on Steam for under $20 for the first time

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Steam's Detective Fest has Blue Prince and many other detective games at their lowest-ever prices

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Microsoft Copilot app
In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app,' but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Copilot is the app for launching the other apps, but it's also a chatbot inside the apps. Any questions?

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Code Vein 2 - an anime character fires a charged up shot out of a giant rifle
Playing Code Vein 2 made me wonder why more soulslikes don't have guns, even if I could do with a bit less anime melodrama

By Wes Fenlon Published

Gun Souls The anime soulslike returns with a time travel story and, more importantly, firearms.

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Gun Souls
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Personal Pick for GOTY 2025
2025 was the best year for ninja games ever, but all of them just made it clear that 2008's Ninja Gaiden 2 remains untouchable

By Wes Fenlon Published

🏆 This year's Ninja Gaiden 2 Black finally does right by a messy but one-of-a-kind action game.

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Satya Nadella sits between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos looking awkward
Microsoft's year of shame

By Wes Fenlon Published

FFS Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!

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Swen Vincke with an armful of Golden Joystick Awards.
Swen Vincke says there's 'definitely more pressure' to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3

By Wes Fenlon Published

news You might think making the sequel to the most popular D&D game ever was as high pressure as it gets, but nope.

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Divinity cinematic reveal
'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity

By Wes Fenlon Published

Roundup What is Divinity's combat like, what does "more ambitious" than Baldur's Gate 3 mean, how far into development is it, and more questions answered.

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Divinity cinematic reveal
Divinity is 'past pre-production' and already recording actors, but don't read too much into that: Swen Vincke says Larian will be 'recording non-stop'

By Wes Fenlon Published

news "That gives you an idea of the ambition."

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A screencap of Hollow Knight: Silksong's opening cutscene. A close-up shot of protagonist Hornet moments before she breaks out of a metal cage. Her curved white mask and red cloak are lit up as a glowing strand of silk surrounds her.
Silksong has sold more than 7 million copies in 3 months—and no, that's not counting Game Pass

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Big number.

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Silksong Sea of Sorrow art
Surprise! Hollow Knight: Silksong's getting an expansion promising 'new areas, bosses, tools, and more' next year

By Wes Fenlon Published

News The original Hollow Knight just got 16:10 and 21:9 support, too.

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Phantom Blade Zero
The most promising action game of 2026 finally has a release date, and we now know it'll launch on PC day one

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Phantom Blade Zero is, thankfully, not a timed PlayStation exclusive.

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Lenny Kravitz in sunglasses and an open jacket revealing his ridiculous abs
Yes, IO Interactive really scanned Lenny Kravitz's incredible sculpted abs for his 007 First Light character model

By Wes Fenlon Published

News "That's not a body double."

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Warhorse and Sandfall developers posing together at The Game Awards
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet 'Blame the French!' after losing every Game Awards category to Clair Obscur, but it was in good fun: They partied together after

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Warhorse Studios had its memes ready for a win or a loss.

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