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

Switch 2 Pro Controller front
How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

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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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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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Milano's Odd Job Collection art
Steam's latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the 'cozy' era, but it's only officially available in English thanks to fan translators

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Milano's Odd Job Collection is out on Steam today.

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Windows 3.1 color schemes
Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Setting the record straight, 33 years later.

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Slay the Spire 2's new mystery character
'We ended up flipping a coin': Slay the Spire devs left it up to pure chance whether they'd make a sequel or something else

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Heads was a mystery project. Tails was Slay the Spire 2.

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Google search with a kaomoji offering a friendly gesture
Google is desperate for us to forget the simple joy of the original internet: Links

By Wes Fenlon Published

We have to go back.

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Crucial DDR5-5600 2x16GB memory modules
The RAM crisis is just getting started: Micron makes the 'difficult decision' to abandon the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Micron's Crucial brand will no longer offer DDR for PC users starting in February 2026.

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Microsoft ugly sweater with Copilot
Proving truly nothing is sacred, Microsoft has included the Copilot AI logo on this year's ugly Windows Christmas sweater

By Wes Fenlon Published

News No one wants that.

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Chicken
For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' written in an MS-DOS help file has fueled an urban legend that a certain sound wavelength will make chicken heads explode

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Borland C++ Turbo, you've got some explaining to do.

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Files file manager dark and light themes
Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Other than the addition of tabs, Windows' file Explorer hasn't felt meaningfully improved in a long time.

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Never gonna Paint you up
Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Trump posing together at Mar a Lago in 1997
'We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails' is the most impressively cursed tech project of the year

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Way better than combing through a bunch of PDFs.

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