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
Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Prepare An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.
Satisfactory 1.0 finally has mod support, and the revamped mod manager now supports dedicated servers too
By Wes Fenlon published
Time to get modding, factory builders.
The best streaming gear on offer for October Prime Day
By Katie Wickens published
Prime Day deals Microphones, gaming headsets and webcams that are perfect for a quality discount streaming setup.
The 8 Prime Day deals so good they make it hard to recommend anything else
By Wes Fenlon published
Prime Day Don't stress about the thousands of items on sale today. Just look at these eight.
The 6 best Steam Deck accessories on sale for Prime Day
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Prime Day deals The accessories you should have for your Steam Deck, all cheaper than usual.
The coolest Prime Day board game deals, as picked by our tabletop gaming obsessives
By Wes Fenlon published
Prime Day deals Here are the board games we'd buy from Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event this week.
The best free PC games
By Shaun Prescott last updated
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.
The best-named game of all time nearly could've been called something else because some of its developers hated the pun
By Wes Fenlon published
News In an alternate timeline, Satisfactory could've had a different (and surely worse) title.
The Satisfactory team was already cooking up plans for what to add after launch even before the 1.0 release exceeded all expectations
By Wes Fenlon published
News Coffee Stain will talk about updates for Satisfactory 'in the near future.'
Satisfactory's developers had no idea how popular its 1.0 launch was going to be: 'We try not to focus too much on that stuff and just make it as big as we possibly can'
By Wes Fenlon published
News "We broke all our records," Coffee Stain said.
I can't believe how far Bloodborne emulation has come in just the last 2 months
By Wes Fenlon published
News It still has a long way to go, but playable Bloodborne on PC is becoming a reality.
The PlayStation 3 emulator now supports online matchmaking for some 2000s greats, including Armored Core 4, Ridge Racer 7 and Tekken 5
By Wes Fenlon published
News Keeping online play for the classics alive, even if Sony takes its own servers offline.
In the Devil May Cry anime, Dante yells 'jackpot!' and then fires a bullet that says 'jackpot' on it so I'm a little worried about the writing now
By Wes Fenlon published
News The DMC anime is finally coming out in April 2025.
Friendship restored with Steam: Valve has fixed the screenshot manager and all is right with the world
By Wes Fenlon published
News He Is Risen: Steam's "Show on Disk" feature is back.
The best co-op games for PC
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! The best co-op PC games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
The Steam Deck is on sale for 25% off, but maybe not the model you want
By Wes Fenlon published
News Valve's putting the LCD Steam Deck on clearance, but sadly there's no discount on the newer OLED.
How to make your factory way better than satisfactory in Satisfactory
By Wes Fenlon published
Better Building Burau A few pointers to help you on your way towards becoming a pro builder.
After 5 years in early access, Satisfactory is finally out—here's what's new in 1.0
By Wes Fenlon published
News Satisfactory's launch version finally includes a "story" alongside loads of new features. Let's take stock.
8 years after declaring it took 'courage' to remove the iPhone's headphone jack, Apple has finally decided buttons and ports are cool again
By Wes Fenlon published
News Welcome back to the reality the rest of us have been living in this whole time, Apple.
I cannot believe Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to embarrassingly slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
By Wes Fenlon published
News The iPhone 16 may have a USB-C port, but the speed it transfers data is laughably outdated, just like last year.
The best Steam Deck games
By Katie Wickens, Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games that you should play on Valve's gaming handheld.
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.
Is there any chance of a Concord comeback? Here are 5 other times major PC games failed to launch, and what happened next
By Wes Fenlon published
Rocky Start Can the attempted revivals of past live service games give us a preview of what Concord does next?
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