
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

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.

My favorite thing about Avowed might just be how much stuff it lets me turn off
By Wes Fenlon published
Fiddler Avowed's deep commitment to UI options is one of its greatest strengths.

We played Avowed with both first-person and third-person cameras: Here's what we thought
By Wes Fenlon published
Was Avowed's third-person camera worth the extra time and effort? As an accessibility option, absolutely. Beyond that...

If you've been worried about Avowed not looking punchy enough, Obsidian's combat designer has a hitstop animation 'superpower' that might reassure you
By Wes Fenlon published
News Avowed's sword-tuner cut his teeth working on actiony MMOs like Warhammer Online and WildStar.

Avowed is a jack-of-all-trades action RPG with a rare attention for the little details
By Wes Fenlon published
Hands-on In rare moments Avowed reminds me of an immersive sim, but it stops short of the simulation of games like Deus Ex.

Obsidian's designers discuss how they decide the size of Avowed's environments: 'We don't want to have those empty, meaningless spaces just to have them'
By Jody Macgregor published
News "When you explore Avowed, your exploration, your curiosity, is going to be rewarded."

The Halo campaigns, ranked from worst to best
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Chief Chiefs Our favorite Halo campaigns, from Combat Evolved to Infinite.

Blizzard leans into maximum nostalgia by bringing back the Battle Chest to celebrate Warcraft's 30th anniversary
By Wes Fenlon published
news The Warcraft 3 Battle Chest includes all three remastered real-time strategy games.

Blizzard surprise launches Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 1 remasters today with 'hand-drawn visuals, UI improvements,' and more
By Wes Fenlon published
news The RTS games that put Blizzard on the map are looking sharp thanks to new art and quality-of-life features.

The best short games on PC
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Short haul Great games you can finish in an evening or two.

It sure looks like a Warcraft 2 remaster just leaked ahead of next week's anniversary event
By Wes Fenlon published
News Blizzard is planning a "Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct" for November 13.

Let's all de-stress for a minute by looking at beautiful Stardew Valley farms
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Chill Soothing pixels.

The reigning Pope of 1-bit mystery games is back with a Halloween treat: a haunted house game you can play in your browser
By Wes Fenlon published
The Adventure Club's #1 rule: Stay out of Moida Mansion.

All new MacBooks now come with a baseline 16GB of RAM, a year after Apple brazenly claimed 8GB of RAM on a Mac was 'analogous to 16GB' on PCs
By Wes Fenlon published
News Just don't look at how much the SSD upgrades cost.

Sony's PC ports are speeding up: Spider-Man 2 arrives on PC in January 2025
By Wes Fenlon published
NEWS The Steam and Epic release will include the full game and numerous post-release updates.

The US FTC just dealt a deathblow to bad gyms and skeevy subscription services with a new 'click to cancel' rule
By Wes Fenlon published
News The new rule intends to force businesses to "make it as easy for people to withdraw from your program as it was to sign up."

10 years on, the most infamous gaming Kickstarter of them all is still trying to reach the finish line: 'I want to explicitly state that this project is not dead'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Somehow, Unsung Story returned.

Arcane season 2: What we know so far
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Sibling rivalry All the details we have about League of Legends' upcoming animated series.

Satisfactory 1.0 finally has mod support, and the revamped mod manager now supports dedicated servers too
By Wes Fenlon published
Time to get modding, factory builders.

The best streaming gear on offer for October Prime Day
By Katie Wickens published
Deals Microphones, gaming headsets and webcams that are perfect for a quality discount streaming setup.

The 8 Prime Day deals so good they make it hard to recommend anything else
By Wes Fenlon published
Deals Don't stress about the thousands of items on sale today. Just look at these eight.
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