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
The magical realism of Dungeons of Hinterberg unexpectedly stole my heart at not-E3
By Wes Fenlon published
New Tourism Hinterberg borrows from Zelda and Persona, but its setting really gives it a vibe all its own.
Top Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit banned after 3 years
By Wes Fenlon published
News The r/NewYuzuPiracy subreddit was home to hundreds of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom modding discussions before it was banned on Tuesday.
Alan Wake 2 looks gorgeous, but the combat and mystery were less convincing in its recent demo
By Wes Fenlon published
Spooked I'm hopeful there's a lot more to this survival horror game that Remedy is keeping under wraps.
The best games and announcements from all the summer showcases (and 7 hidden gems)
By Evan Lahti published
Best of the best Which games "won" the last week? The PC Gamer team's verdict after watching every trailer.
It sounds like CD Projekt is rolling right into the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel when Phantom Liberty is finished
By Wes Fenlon published
News Phantom Liberty's director is also taking charge of the 2077 sequel.
The action in Armored Core 6 'cannot be reproduced with a human character' said FromSoftware, and the demo proved it
By Wes Fenlon published
Mecha War Forget what you know about FromSoftware's RPGs: Armored Core 6 is a return to pure, glorious action.
This is almost certainly going to be the best year for fighting games ever
By Wes Fenlon published
Rematch After playing Mortal Kombat 1 right off the back of Street Fighter 6, I think we're going to be talking about 2023 for decades.
3 years after he faced sexual harassment allegations, new fighting game Diesel Legacy is giving disgraced Skullgirls developer Mike Zaimont a chance to prove he's now 'fundamentally different'
By Wes Fenlon published
Report We spoke with the devs behind Diesel Legacy and Zaimont's former coworkers about his past behavior and return to games.
'Select' PC Game Pass games coming to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming
By Wes Fenlon published
News Nvidia's cloud streaming service racks up another batch of games.
Exclusive: Obsidian breaks 3-year silence to spill the secrets of Avowed, its next big RPG
By Wes Fenlon published
New Pillar Obsidian spills the first details on combat, magic, character-building, and how important companions are to the story.
This co-op farming game is the most jam-packed cutesy life sim I've seen since Stardew Valley
By Wes Fenlon published
Magic Beans Fae Farm has the usual spread of activities and then some, but it's the approach to co-op I'm most interested in.
Sam Lake answers the biggest Alan Wake 2 question: What happened to his layers?
By Wes Fenlon published
news Getting to the bottom of the fashion mystery at the heart of Alan Wake 2.
Persona 3 remake is real: Atlus accidentally leaks its own game early
By Wes Fenlon published
News Persona 3 Reload is coming "early 2024," and Persona 5 Tactica maybe sooner than that.
I'm so happy they're making a game all about Akira Toriyama's obsession with cute tanks and motorcycles
By Wes Fenlon published
News Sand Land, revealed at Summer Game Fest, looks like a dream project for Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.
Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical
By Wes Fenlon published
Mama Mia The fan emulation scene has not only lead to countless innovations over the years, it's directly benefited Nintendo.
Kojima makes surprise appearance on Apple stream to praise the Mac's 'rendering pipeline' and announce Death Stranding for Mac
By Wes Fenlon published
News A new Mac gaming push from Apple lured "diehard Apple fan" Hideo Kojima to the platform.
Praise the King of All Cosmos, the best Katamari Damacy game is now on PC
By Wes Fenlon published
News We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie sneakily rolled onto Steam Thursday.
Nintendo blocks Steam release of Wii emulator Dolphin
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News The GameCube & Wii emulator developers say the Steam release is "indefinitely postponed."
A magical Windows XP activation tool has been hiding in plain sight on Reddit for the last year
By Wes Fenlon published
News This mysterious method for bypassing Windows XP's activation process is making headlines now, but may actually be years old.
Somebody check if hell's frozen over, because 2010s voxel RPG Cube World is back
By Wes Fenlon published
News The once-promising indie voxel RPG has resurfaced as Cube World Omega.
With 2 new missions, I'm ready to jump back into Warhammer 40K: Darktide
By Wes Fenlon published
News Fatshark has slowly been patching up Darktide, and now it's time to expand.
How is AI going to change game development?
By Wes Fenlon published
Podcast Developers from Hardspace Shipbreaker studio Blackbird Interactive talk about the realistic possibilities of AI in gaming.