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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

Emergency Call Ambulance arcade game with parademics rushing towards the screen and two ambulances in the background

Yakuza Kiwami 3 includes the first official emulation of 2 bizarro Sega arcade games, including one like Crazy Taxi but you're racing an ambulance to the hospital before a patient bleeds to death

By Wes Fenlon Published 16 January 26

News Forget all that yakuza drama. Time to play some obscure arcade games.

News

Yakuza Kiwami 3 masked figure from Survival Hell

Yakuza Kiwami 3's new expansion basically turns it into a breakneck roguelite dungeon crawl, complete with random drops and goofy sidekicks

By Wes Fenlon Published 16 January 26

Roguepunch It's like fight club, only you're Yakuza Batman.

Roguepunch

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 14 January 26

Switch pad The easiest way to connect Nintendo's Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers to your PC using Bluetooth or USB.

Switch pad

Windows 8 style desktop with the Linux Tux mascot in the foreground

An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux

By Wes Fenlon Published 13 January 26

News Windows 8? In 2026? These really might be the end times.

17 Comments

News

A magnifying glass looking at a note and a photo of a woman in a dark room

Blue Prince, the best game of 2025 (don't check our GOTY just trust me) is on sale on Steam for under $20 for the first time

By Wes Fenlon Published 13 January 26

News Steam's Detective Fest has Blue Prince and many other detective games at their lowest-ever prices

News

9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026

By Rory Norris Published 9 January 26

Steam Wishlist Hey Steam, we know you don't have much competition, but there's still a lot you should do.

26 Comments

Steam Wishlist

In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app,' but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant

By Wes Fenlon Published 5 January 26

News Copilot is the app for launching the other apps, but it's also a chatbot inside the apps. Any questions?

24 Comments

News

Code Vein 2 - an anime character fires a charged up shot out of a giant rifle

Playing Code Vein 2 made me wonder why more soulslikes don't have guns, even if I could do with a bit less anime melodrama

By Wes Fenlon Published 5 January 26

Gun Souls The anime soulslike returns with a time travel story and, more importantly, firearms.

21 Comments

Gun Souls

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Personal Pick for GOTY 2025

2025 was the best year for ninja games ever, but all of them just made it clear that 2008's Ninja Gaiden 2 remains untouchable

By Wes Fenlon Published 28 December 25

🏆 This year's Ninja Gaiden 2 Black finally does right by a messy but one-of-a-kind action game.

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Satya Nadella sits between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos looking awkward

Microsoft's year of shame

By Wes Fenlon Published 23 December 25

FFS Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!

FFS

The best deals in the 2025 Steam Winter Sale

By Lauren Morton Published 18 December 25

Deals All the cheap games in the Winter Sale that you won't want to miss, from lowest-ever prices to discounted new releases.

13 Comments

Deals

Swen Vincke with an armful of Golden Joystick Awards.

Swen Vincke says there's 'definitely more pressure' to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3

By Wes Fenlon Published 16 December 25

news You might think making the sequel to the most popular D&D game ever was as high pressure as it gets, but nope.

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'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity

By Wes Fenlon Published 16 December 25

Roundup What is Divinity's combat like, what does "more ambitious" than Baldur's Gate 3 mean, how far into development is it, and more questions answered.

19 Comments

Roundup