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

Death Stranding 2 developer says his wife had a rather strong reaction to its first big plot twist: 'Kojima Productions are psychopaths'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Well that's harsh.

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After feedback that Death Stranding was 'too slow,' Kojima wanted more players to see Death Stranding 2 all the way through to the end

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Being more divisive wasn't the goal after all.

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Even after ZA/UM's messy breakup, the writing team still has a cadre of sad communists—but you won't have to play Zero Parades as one if you don't want to

By Joshua Wolens Published

News But I will, though. Just so you know.

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Death Stranding 2 devs thought 'Brutal' mode was hard enough, but pushed the game to 'the upper limit' with its new difficulty option on PC

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Some players complained that Death Stranding 2 was too easy. The new "To the Wilder" difficulty is Kojima Productions' answer.

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First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000

By Wes Fenlon Published

Call me AI Welcome to writing about computer games in 2026.

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Call me AI
Ultima's Robert Garriott was worried about there being too many PC games on the market… 37 years ago

By Wes Fenlon Published

News "The consumer doesn't really know what to buy for their computer," Garriott said in 1989, while also pointing to the popularity of Nintendo's newfangled game console.

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A True Kin knight stands in a ruin in Caves of Qud, flanked by bloodstained furniture and a freshly mortalized corpse.
'We're playing game designs from 2005 still': Caves of Qud's co-creator wants to build new kinds of sicko gameplay systems that'll use all the processing potential being left untapped

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News My body is ready, but my CPU might not be.

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Death Stranding 2 PC
Death Stranding 2 review: Catharsis in the age of the algorithm

By Wes Fenlon Published

Carry That Weight Beautiful, profound, confounding. It's more Death Stranding, all right.

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Carry That Weight
Steam build of Death Stranding 2 leaks two days ahead of launch

By Wes Fenlon Published

Something went wrong with the Death Stranding 2 preload process.

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Marathon Introducing Traxus: Art of Traxus' liason sat in a chair with a lion next to them.
The co-creators of Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike fever dream, worked as narrative consultants on Marathon—which mostly meant they 'got to sit there in the room and throw completely absurd ideas at the wall'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News I knew something about that Tick Milk felt familiar.

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Pragmata checks off a crucial element of Japanese sci-fi with giant robot kaiju boss battles

By Wes Fenlon Published

Bigshot First you're gonna to hack the giant robot. Then you're gonna shoot it.

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Overwatch tier list: Jetpack Cat flying towards the camera while carrying a Mauga.
Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever

By Tyler Wilde Published

news The competing hero shooter "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard.

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Baby Steps' designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of 'plausible' climbing challenges they didn't even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Baby Steps' designers accidentally made an impossible challenge, so players set out to prove it possible.

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Austin Wintory playing a keyboard
Journey composer Austin Wintory played an unreleased song from his canceled 'dream job of all time' during the Game Developers Choice Awards, just to drive home that the industry's doing great

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Host Sam Maggs also named several canceled games that will never see the light of day.

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Zero Parades screenshot
Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance

By Wes Fenlon Published

Burn After Reading Two locked doors, two surprisingly funny and nuanced dialogue puzzles.

Burn After Reading
ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Harrier Who Bois?

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A wounded, bedridden Shan Hemlock being tended by one of her demigod siblings.
Even among the crowd of gorgeous illustrated games, At Fate's End is stunning enough to stand out

By Wes Fenlon Published

Stunner Sword-centric demigod sibling drama never looked so good.

Stunner
Ben Starr and Jennifer English being clowned upon Jimbo-style at Austin Wintory's third annual GDC concert in 2026.
In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Jimbo's revenge.

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Slay the Spire 2 launch times and release date

By Wes Fenlon Published

Unlocked Here's when Slay the Spire 2 unlocks on Steam.

Unlocked
PlayStation 4 dualshock 4 controller with the Ask PC gamer logo in the top right, on a grey background
How to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth

By Wes Fenlon, Katie Wickens Last updated

Guide A step-by-step guide to using the DualShock 4 on PC via Bluetooth.

Guide
Dualshock 3 controller
How to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

By Wes Fenlon Last updated

Guide A step-by-step guide to using the DualShock 3 in Windows via Bluetooth or plain old USB.

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Resident Evil Requiem's 5 million sales have made it one of Capcom's all-time top 20 bestsellers in just 4 days

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Call it the Leon bump. (Or don't call it that).

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Capcom's RE Engine is the gift that keeps on giving: Resident Evil Requiem runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck

By Wes Fenlon Published

Decked out I didn't expect a big budget 2026 game to be this playable on the Deck.

Decked out
Resident Evil Requiem guide: Puzzle solutions, locked doors, collectibles, and more

By Wes Fenlon Published

Guide All the RE Requiem help you need in one place.

Guide
When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series' goofy puzzles: 'We’ll just have to make the police chief a weirdo!'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News In an alternate timeline, Resident Evil could've become a lot more serious.

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