
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

Elden Ring: Nightreign 'is not what we consider a live service game,' says FromSoftware: 'We wanted to have a game that felt like a complete package'
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News FromSoftware isn't going down the Fortnite path just yet.

FromSoftware's next game is an Elden Ring spin-off called Nightreign, and it's coming next year
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News Nightreign is Elden Ring crossed with a roguelike, and we've played it.

Elden Ring: Nightreign will include a character built around Shadow of the Erdtree's parry mechanic
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News There's a character for the Bloodborne fans, and there's one for the Sekiro fans, too.

My favorite little Elden Ring: Nightreign feature is the first evolution of FromSoftware's iconic 'bloodstains' since 2009's Demon's Souls, and has roots in a roguelike from way back in 1987
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News When you die, you can now leave a remnant of your sick loot behind for another player.

It seems like Square's finally consistently taking the PC ports of Final Fantasy seriously
By Wes Fenlon published
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's PC features are looking much, much better than Remake's.

18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
By Phil Savage published
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.

The Witcher 3's now 2-year-old bonus quest is our first taste of the 'vibe' CD Projekt is going for in The Witcher 4
By Wes Fenlon published
Fired Up Revisiting In the Eternal Fire's Shadow to see if CD Projekt's still got the goods.

AMD announces more powerful Ryzen Z2 Series processors for future PC handhelds, but Valve says 'there is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck'
By Jacob Ridley published
News AMD says Valve will be using one of its latest processors, the Z2 Series, inside a new Steam Deck, but Valve says otherwise.

After 2024, it feels like the games industry is poised for a vibe shift—or maybe a reckoning
By Wes Fenlon published
Ready? This year's trends and hardships are setting up 2025 to be a year of big change.

Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring – Shadow of the Erdtree
By Tyler Colp published
🏆 FromSoft does it again.

Best Sandbox 2024: Satisfactory
By Wes Fenlon published
🏆 Take a lush, alien world. Turn it into a factory.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is so authentically Indiana Jones it should probably be called Henry Jones Jr. and the Great Circle
By Wes Fenlon published
🏆 MachineGames' latest is a triumph.

You should definitely grab today's free Epic Store giveaway: this 'dicebuilder' might quietly be the best freebie of the season
By Wes Fenlon published
News Astrea is a six-sided gem in a sea of 2D card games.

The mother of all XCOM 2 mods just got its first update in a year, with 9445 words of patch notes proving it worthy of the Long War name
By Wes Fenlon published
News Long War of the Chosen 1.2 is now live on Steam with "a ton of new content and tweaks."

Elden Ring: Nightreign's director remembers the one big bit of advice he got from Hidetaka Miyazaki: 'Do it as you please'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Who could ask for a better show of support from the big boss himself?

If you want to play Elden Ring: Nightreign as soon as possible, good news: It'll have a Network Test in February
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News The Elden Ring roguelike spin-off is out sometime in 2025, but as usual you'll get to try it before release.

The Game Awards were stacked with even more big reveals than we expected this year
By Lauren Morton published
Roundup This year's show had tons of reveals that would have been the "one more thing" in another year.

8 years after The Last Guardian and almost 20 since Shadow of the Colossus, Fumito Ueda's new game is finally announced—and it's sci-fi this time
By Wes Fenlon published
News The new game, published by Epic, was announced at the 2024 Game Awards.

Watch Avowed's director set a new speed record for answering our questions about Obsidian's upcoming RPG
By Wes Fenlon published
Q&A Carrie Patel joined The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted ahead of Avowed's release in February.

Wizard of Legend 2, one of this year's most under-the-radar roguelites, is getting a chonky update next week
By Wes Fenlon published
News The wizard action game hasn't been in early access long, and it's already seeing some big additions.

Black Friday Steam sale alternatives: Even cheaper PC gaming deals
By Wes Fenlon published
Deal The Steam Autumn sale isn't the only game in town.
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