
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

9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026
By Rory Norris published
Steam Wishlist Hey Steam, we know you don't have much competition, but there's still a lot you should do.

The best laptop games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Updated Great laptop games can run on low-spec PCs, fit cozily onto smaller screens, and are perfectly playable with a trackpad.

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

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

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

Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Free keys An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.

Microsoft's year of shame
By Wes Fenlon published
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!

The best deals in the 2025 Steam Winter Sale
By Lauren Morton published
Deals All the cheap games in the Winter Sale that you won't want to miss, from lowest-ever prices to discounted new releases.

Swen Vincke says there's 'definitely more pressure' to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3
By Wes Fenlon published
news You might think making the sequel to the most popular D&D game ever was as high pressure as it gets, but nope.

'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
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.

PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
By Phil Savage published
The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.

Divinity is 'past pre-production' and already recording actors, but don't read too much into that: Swen Vincke says Larian will be 'recording non-stop'
By Wes Fenlon published
news "That gives you an idea of the ambition."

Silksong has sold more than 7 million copies in 3 months—and no, that's not counting Game Pass
By Wes Fenlon published
News Big number.

Surprise! Hollow Knight: Silksong's getting an expansion promising 'new areas, bosses, tools, and more' next year
By Wes Fenlon published
News The original Hollow Knight just got 16:10 and 21:9 support, too.

The most promising action game of 2026 finally has a release date, and we now know it'll launch on PC day one
By Wes Fenlon published
News Phantom Blade Zero is, thankfully, not a timed PlayStation exclusive.

Yes, IO Interactive really scanned Lenny Kravitz's incredible sculpted abs for his 007 First Light character model
By Wes Fenlon published
News "That's not a body double."

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet 'Blame the French!' after losing every Game Awards category to Clair Obscur, but it was in good fun: They partied together after
By Wes Fenlon published
News Warhorse Studios had its memes ready for a win or a loss.

The next official D&D videogame won't be anything like Baldur's Gate 3: 'We're making a third-person action-adventure open world game that focuses on the warlock'
By Jody Macgregor published
News How many problems can I solve with eldritch blast this time?

Steam's latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the 'cozy' era, but it's only officially available in English thanks to fan translators
By Wes Fenlon published
News Milano's Odd Job Collection is out on Steam today.

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
By Wes Fenlon published
News Setting the record straight, 33 years later.

'We ended up flipping a coin': Slay the Spire devs left it up to pure chance whether they'd make a sequel or something else
By Wes Fenlon published
News Heads was a mystery project. Tails was Slay the Spire 2.

Google is desperate for us to forget the simple joy of the original internet: Links
By Wes Fenlon published
We have to go back.

The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.



