
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

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.

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.

'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.

Google is desperate for us to forget the simple joy of the original internet: Links
By Wes Fenlon published
We have to go back.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You deserve a Giant Knob for your desk, and you're in luck because Giant Knobs are on sale for Cyber Monday
By Wes Fenlon published
Cyber Monday It's been a hard year. Wouldn't a Giant Knob make you feel better?

This USB-C power bank has cured my laptop battery anxiety, and I'd recommend it even if it wasn't 35% off for Cyber Monday
By Wes Fenlon published
Cyber Monday My new cafe companion has helped me make peace with less than stellar battery life, and it turns out a cool screen can make even a power bank more fun.

Here's why I reckon this 480 Hz 1440p gaming monitor is a better choice than any 4K OLED in the Cyber Monday sales
By Wes Fenlon published
Cyber Monday There are a lot of OLED monitors on sale right now, but it's a high-end 1440p that's the best pick for me.

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.

How to use the PS5 DualSense controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon last updated
PSPad Playing PC games with Sony's DualSense controller is a piece of cake.

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

Arc Raiders guide: Quests, loot locations, and tips on the best gear
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Archaeology Knowing is half the battle. The other half is robots.

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.
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.

'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.

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.

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.

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!

No amount of money can buy being goated with the sauce
By Wes Fenlon published
Sauceless Not a must cop.
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