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

Hooked on the brothers

By Wes Fenlon Published

Hangin' with the plumbers

Games
The Video Game History Foundation is scanning Japanese magazines now

By Wes Fenlon Published

Ganbatte!

Gaming Industry
I apologize in advance for this, but: Introducing Drillposting

By Wes Fenlon Published

Winted This is all my mind is capable of right now.

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Winted
Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance director Takuro Hiraoka; a hunter being attacked by a flying monster in Ascendance.
'Players got better than we expected': Monster Hunter Wilds DLC director says Capcom is retuning its difficulty standards for the expansion's endgame

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News "We're working on that balance."

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News
Monster Hunter series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto; a hunter posing with a large hammer in Monster Hunter Wilds.
Unbiased Monster Hunter producer predicts one weapon will climb the popularity rankings in Ascendance, has no agenda: 'Hammer should definitely go up a place or two'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News My man.

News
Sick of grinding for upgrade materials like leather and iron in Onimusha: Way of the Sword? Good news: you can buy a lot of them

By Wes Fenlon Published

Guide With the souls you get from killing Genma, not cash money.

Guide
A pink-haired woman disguised in sunglasses, hat, and trenchcoat waits to be served in a record store
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.

Small but mighty
Onimusha: Way of the Sword has a hard mode, but it isn't unlocked from the start

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Here are the difficulty options you can change to make Onimusha harder.

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News
Worried about Onimusha's difficulty after the demo? I have the death count to prove the full game's got teeth

By Wes Fenlon Published

Oni-oucha Plenty of challenge awaits in Onimusha: Way of the Sword once you get past the game's opening hours.

Oni-oucha
Onimusha: Way of the Sword review: Some live, some die

By Wes Fenlon Published

Sword Saint Ferociously good combat brings this long-dormant series back from the afterlife.

Sword Saint
5 samurai movies to watch before playing Onimusha: Way of the Sword

By Wes Fenlon Published

🥷🎥 While you were out partying, I was studying the blade (on DVD).

🥷🎥
Lucia from Grand Theft Auto 6 laying on a pink bed while scrolling on her phone
What do you think of the GTA 6 reveal?

By Andrea Shearon Published

Request for comment Was the Netflix preview everything you’ve ever wanted, or a dud?

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Request for comment
Blue Dragon art
Blue Dragon has been stuck on the Xbox 360 for 20 years, but no longer: a fantastic unofficial PC port unlocks the FPS, goes 4K, and even adds mod support

By Wes Fenlon Published

Recomped This Xbox 360 recompilation proves how good fan ports can be when they aren't vibe-coded.

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Recomped
Ontos rat computer
The hardware crisis has hit a new low: We're now using rats for RAM

By Wes Fenlon Published

"News" Rat computer.

"News"
The Witcher 4 is 'targeting' a 2028 release

By Wes Fenlon Published

News CD Projekt dropped a few details ahead of Gamescom's Opening Night Live.

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News
Phantom Blade Zero finally shows off its interconnected game world, with exploration 'guided by 8 authentic hand-painted Chinese ink wash maps'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News It's not a linear action game or an open world RPG.

News
Before Grand Theft Auto Online, GTA 4's multiplayer added 'glorious chaos' to the open world sandbox

By Kieron Gillen Published

From the Archives Liberty City, Liberty City: so big they reviewed it twice. This time: multiplayer.

From the Archives
Wes Fenlon's recommendations

By Wes Fenlon Last updated

Roundup What has Senior Editor Wes Fenlon been into lately?

Roundup
If you're not paying attention to retro game recompilations, you're missing the most exciting thing in gaming right now

By Wes Fenlon Published

Get hip Forget all the new games coming out in 2026. Newly shiny old games are where it's at.

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Get hip
Phantom Blade Zero just dropped a huge secret: Hong Kong legend Donnie Yen has been guiding its kungfupunk stunts since 2023

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Yen brings more than 40 years of martial arts experience to the game.

News
Xbox's CEO teased that she's seen The Elder Scrolls 6, so now we have to guess what it's called

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Is it eight letters, or was this just a big distraction?

15 Comments
News
Samus from Metroid Prime Origins
Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Metroid Prime Origins takes the first 3D game in the series back in time.

News
Over the Hill off-roader driving towards a rock throwing the horns
The vibey offroading game with more than a million Steam wishlists has a release date

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Over the Hill looks set to be a low key hit.

News
From ancient Buddhism, to iconic manga hair, to Keanu Reeves: a PC Gamer Causality Chain™

By Wes Fenlon Published

🔗 Would Xuanzang have liked John Wick?

🔗
You deserve a travel power adapter you actually like for your next trip

By Wes Fenlon Published

Pack smart Get rid of those oversized all-in-one chunks of plastic.

Pack smart
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