
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

Ultima's Robert Garriott was worried about there being too many PC games on the market… 37 years ago
By Wes Fenlon published
News "The consumer doesn't really know what to buy for their computer," Garriott said in 1989, while also pointing to the popularity of Nintendo's newfangled game console.

'We're playing game designs from 2005 still': Caves of Qud's co-creator wants to build new kinds of sicko gameplay systems that'll use all the processing potential being left untapped
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News My body is ready, but my CPU might not be.

Death Stranding 2 review: Catharsis in the age of the algorithm
By Wes Fenlon published
Carry That Weight Beautiful, profound, confounding. It's more Death Stranding, all right.

Steam build of Death Stranding 2 leaks two days ahead of launch
By Wes Fenlon published
Something went wrong with the Death Stranding 2 preload process.

The co-creators of Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike fever dream, worked as narrative consultants on Marathon—which mostly meant they 'got to sit there in the room and throw completely absurd ideas at the wall'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I knew something about that Tick Milk felt familiar.

Pragmata checks off a crucial element of Japanese sci-fi with giant robot kaiju boss battles
By Wes Fenlon published
Bigshot First you're gonna to hack the giant robot. Then you're gonna shoot it.

Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever
By Tyler Wilde published
news The competing hero shooter "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard.

Baby Steps' designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of 'plausible' climbing challenges they didn't even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one
By Wes Fenlon published
News Baby Steps' designers accidentally made an impossible challenge, so players set out to prove it possible.

Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Free keys An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.

Journey composer Austin Wintory played an unreleased song from his canceled 'dream job of all time' during the Game Developers Choice Awards, just to drive home that the industry's doing great
By Wes Fenlon published
News Host Sam Maggs also named several canceled games that will never see the light of day.

Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance
By Wes Fenlon published
Burn After Reading Two locked doors, two surprisingly funny and nuanced dialogue puzzles.

ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Harrier Who Bois?

Even among the crowd of gorgeous illustrated games, At Fate's End is stunning enough to stand out
By Wes Fenlon published
Stunner Sword-centric demigod sibling drama never looked so good.

In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag
By Wes Fenlon published
News Jimbo's revenge.

Slay the Spire 2 launch times and release date
By Wes Fenlon published
Unlocked Here's when Slay the Spire 2 unlocks on Steam.

How to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth
By Wes Fenlon, Katie Wickens last updated
Guide A step-by-step guide to using the DualShock 4 on PC via Bluetooth.

How to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Guide A step-by-step guide to using the DualShock 3 in Windows via Bluetooth or plain old USB.

Resident Evil Requiem's 5 million sales have made it one of Capcom's all-time top 20 bestsellers in just 4 days
By Wes Fenlon published
News Call it the Leon bump. (Or don't call it that).

The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.

Capcom's RE Engine is the gift that keeps on giving: Resident Evil Requiem runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck
By Wes Fenlon published
Decked out I didn't expect a big budget 2026 game to be this playable on the Deck.

Resident Evil Requiem guide: Puzzle solutions, locked doors, collectibles, and more
By Wes Fenlon published
Guide All the RE Requiem help you need in one place.

The best free PC games
By Shaun Prescott last updated
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.

When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series' goofy puzzles: 'We’ll just have to make the police chief a weirdo!'
By Wes Fenlon published
News In an alternate timeline, Resident Evil could've become a lot more serious.
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