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

Grant Gustin grave kneeling meme but with the Windows 11 Task Manager icon on the gravestone
We used to be a society (with a good Windows Task Manager icon)

By Wes Fenlon Published

News? The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit.

14 Comments
News?
A vampire holding a glass of wine or blood, probably blood, knowing vampires
Vampire Survivors is getting a deckbuilding dungeon crawler spin-off that looks purpose built to annihilate your free time

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Vampire Crawlers is coming next year.

News
Alloyed Collective art
A year after Gearbox released Risk of Rain 2 DLC so broken the developer admitted it put the game 'in a really bad place,' it's finally got a win: the new DLC's 96% positive reviews have blasted it up Steam's top sellers chart

By Wes Fenlon Published

News It works this time!

News
FaZe Rug smiling at his phone in an Amazon Alexa ad
No amount of money can buy being goated with the sauce

By Wes Fenlon Published

Sauceless Not a must cop.

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Sauceless
Macintosh Classic 2 photo
Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work

By Wes Fenlon Published

News And it's all thanks to the MAME emulator.

News
Ultima Online key art.
The '80s and '90s PC games unbelievably still being updated today

By Christopher Livingston, Wes Fenlon Published

stayin alive They may have arrived decades ago, but the work (and play) continues.

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stayin alive
Deep Rock Galactic
Even the developers of Steam fave Deep Rock Galactic feel the heat from this year's popular multiplayer games: 'Competition is fierce'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Next year's Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core will launch into a very different Steam landscape than the first game.

News
Deep Rock Galactic's roguelite spin-off is delayed, but in the meantime it's getting another season of new stuff including a 'tomb-like' biome

By Wes Fenlon Published

News When it does arrive, spin-off Rogue Core is also getting something miners have asked for for years: a fifth class.

News
The G-Man looking at the camera.
Sorry PC gamers, Valve isn't announcing Half-Life 3 today

By Wes Fenlon Published

Unconfirmed It's been a big announcement day for Valve. Just not that big.

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Unconfirmed
Windows XP hills, cracked in half
During Microsoft's peak-anti piracy era in the early 2000s, it awkwardly got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using pirated software

By Wes Fenlon Published

News The giveaway was the name of the cracker, "Deepz0ne," buried in the metadata.

News
Artorias in Elden Ring Nightreign
FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Artorias of the Abyss comes to the Lands Between.

News
Microsoft wireless notebook presenter mouse 8000's battery compartment
My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Never let your legal department write driver code!

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News
Generation Exile
Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Generation Exile has been swallowed up by the storm of end-of-year releases on Steam.

News
Key art of Vice City in Grand Theft Auto 6.
Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won't be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay likely pushes its yet-unannounced PC version even further into the future.

40 Comments
News
Compuserve ad of a kid looking into the computer screen
I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down

By Wes Fenlon Published

News? Back in the '80s, "up" meant "online" BUT THERE WAS ALSO "ON-LINE!!!"

31 Comments
News?
Bill Gates standing sheepishly at a presentation for Windows 98
Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Talk about a powerful faux pas.

News
Steam Deck tucked into bed to download before sleep
Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Sweet dreams, Steam Deck.

News
Arc Raiders extraction shooter
My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that

By Wes Fenlon Published

News TFW you have F'd around, and then found out.

News
Stray Children and Yoshiro Kimura
After being inspired by Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades, cult developer Yoshiro Kimura couldn't help but make it weird: 'Some people are going to look at it and go that's kind of odd, but that's just the way my games turn out'

By Wes Fenlon Published

Kid stuff The Undertale-inspired Stray Children, like Kimura's '90s RPG Moon, is part oddball story, part genre commentary.

Kid stuff
Arc Raiders helmet
Here's everything you can get in Arc Raiders from Twitch Drops and Discord Quests

By Wes Fenlon Published

Like it's hot Arc Raiders has a few free cosmetics you can "earn" by linking up your accounts.

Like it's hot
Arc Raiders extraction characters
Arc Raiders' use of AI highlights the tension and confusion over where machine learning ends and generative AI begins

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Embark Studios' contradictory statements about generative AI highlight what's sure to be a long-term industry debate.

53 Comments
News
Arc Raiders helmet
There's a sneaky way to cheat Arc Raiders' tutorial to keep your starting pistol and all the loot you find

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Drop your starting gear before the enemies get the drop on you.

News
Satya Nadella laughing at the Microsoft 50th Anniversary Copilot event
The best way to innovate in gaming 'is to have good margins,' says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, so I guess he'll be reinvesting his $96.5 million payday back into Xbox any second now

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Maybe you can make more sense of Satya Nadella's comments on gaming than I can.

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News
zsKnight
The programmer of legendary emulator ZSNES just resurfaced after 24 years to give his first-ever interview and spill the secrets of its magical netplay, snowy UI and unbelievable speed on 1997 PCs

By Wes Fenlon Published

News A major contributor from the early days of emulation finally gets his flowers.

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News
In this era of remasters, I am politely asking for way more Nintendo DS gems to be ported to Steam

By Wes Fenlon Published

Diverting Steam There are loads of great DS games that would be right at home on the Steam Deck.

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Diverting Steam
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