Latest articles by Wes Fenlon
The '80s and '90s PC games unbelievably still being updated today
stayin alive They may have arrived decades ago, but the work (and play) continues.
Even the developers of Steam fave Deep Rock Galactic feel the heat from this year's popular multiplayer games: 'Competition is fierce'
News Next year's Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core will launch into a very different Steam landscape than the first game.
A short history of John Romero wishing Sandy Petersen well before nuking his Doom tweets from orbit with ruthless precision
News John Romero is about to hope you're doing well.
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
News When it does arrive, spin-off Rogue Core is also getting something miners have asked for for years: a fifth class.
Sorry PC gamers, Valve isn't announcing Half-Life 3 today
Unconfirmed It's been a big announcement day for Valve. Just not that big.
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
News The giveaway was the name of the cracker, "Deepz0ne," buried in the metadata.
FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign
News Artorias of the Abyss comes to the Lands Between.
My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse
News Never let your legal department write driver code!
Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
News Generation Exile has been swallowed up by the storm of end-of-year releases on Steam.
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
News Another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay likely pushes its yet-unannounced PC version even further into the future.
I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down
News? Back in the '80s, "up" meant "online" BUT THERE WAS ALSO "ON-LINE!!!"
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
News Talk about a powerful faux pas.
Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep
News Sweet dreams, Steam Deck.
My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that
News TFW you have F'd around, and then found out.
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'
Kid stuff The Undertale-inspired Stray Children, like Kimura's '90s RPG Moon, is part oddball story, part genre commentary.
Here's everything you can get in Arc Raiders from Twitch Drops and Discord Quests
Like it's hot Arc Raiders has a few free cosmetics you can "earn" by linking up your accounts.
Arc Raiders' use of AI highlights the tension and confusion over where machine learning ends and generative AI begins
News Embark Studios' contradictory statements about generative AI highlight what's sure to be a long-term industry debate.
There's a sneaky way to cheat Arc Raiders' tutorial to keep your starting pistol and all the loot you find
News Drop your starting gear before the enemies get the drop on you.
The best Steam Deck games
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.
How to use every Xbox controller on PC
Guide Tips for connecting Microsoft's Xbox controllers via USB, wireless adapter, or Bluetooth.
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
News Maybe you can make more sense of Satya Nadella's comments on gaming than I can.
How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC
Switch pad The easiest way to connect Nintendo's Switch Pro controller to your PC, wired or via Bluetooth.
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
News A major contributor from the early days of emulation finally gets his flowers.
