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

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 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.

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?

Nearly every essential Castlevania game is now on PC, with one glaring exception
By Wes Fenlon published
News With the Dominus Collection's DS ports now on Steam, the list of missing Castlevanias grows shorter.

Smite 2 is a full-on sequel because the original is just too old: 'There were lots of little janky bits about Smite 1 that we were unable to address'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Smite 2, out today in alpha, aims to 'build a stronger foundation for the next decade of Smite.'

Black Myth: Wukong developer GameScience had to grow into a AAA powerhouse to bring its vision of Journey to the West to life
By Wes Fenlon published
Interview GameScience talks about delivering on the promise of Black Myth's viral first video, and making it approachable to English audiences.

Black Myth: Wukong has the most bombastic action game opening since 2010s greats God of War 3 and Asura's Wrath
By Wes Fenlon published
Strong Start Black Myth's exciting first few minutes have me nostalgic for some all-time greats.

Fashion hunters rejoice as Monster Hunter Wilds ditches gendered armor: Capcom confirms 'all characters can wear any gear'
By Wes Fenlon published
News The hunt for style just got a lot better.

We asked Black Myth: Wukong's developer about the controversy over its founders' past sexist remarks, but GameScience's only reply was 'No comment'
By Wes Fenlon published
News GameScience declined to answer two questions in a recent interview about the subject.

'Mafia 4' officially revealed as Mafia: The Old Country, set in 1900s Sicily during the 'origins of the mafia'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Mafia's going back to the good (bad?) old days.

Starfield expansion Shattered Space is out September 30, but you can drive its new moon buggy today
By Wes Fenlon published
News Bethesda surprise dropped the new vehicle during Gamescom Opening Night Live.

Amazon's next game is a co-op dungeon crawler that desperately wants to be Roblox
By Wes Fenlon published
Past Prime King of Meat seems doomed to be a casualty of the live service era before it's even out.

Black Myth: Wukong crushes Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077's all-time player records on Steam with 1.2 million and counting
By Wes Fenlon published
News Wukong's launch is already one for the history books.

Get ready for Nicolas Cage to do an incredible John Madden voice in a biopic about his life and the videogame
By Wes Fenlon published
News Cage was cast as the big man himself in David O. Russell's next film.

GitHub, the go-to site for open source software, is currently down
By Wes Fenlon published
News It's a rare outage for one of the biggest software repositories in the world.
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