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

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.

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.

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.

If Xbox is 'recommitting' to its console, what does that mean for its recent 'everything is an Xbox' strategy?
By Wes Fenlon published
🔮 Divining meaning from the words of Microsoft Gaming's new CEO.

If you've ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs
By Wes Fenlon published
Speedcrawling Or play it, and let it consume your whole Steam Next Fest week. I'm not your dad.

Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: 'Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently'
By Wes Fenlon published
News The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.

Steam Next Fest hasn't even started, and its first must-play demo is already here
By Wes Fenlon published
Courtly You can play Titanium Court now, and you should be doing that instead of whatever else you're doing.

How often do we see game sequels totally shift genres?
By Wes Fenlon published
Change-up The upcoming Control: Resonant moves from shooter to melee action. You sure don't see that very often.

Microsoft AI CEO curiously omits 'Microsoft AI CEO' from list of white collar jobs that will be replaceable by AI in next 18 months
By Wes Fenlon published
News I'm sure there's a good reason for the omission.
Castlevania is finally back, and it's in exactly the right hands
By Wes Fenlon published
News Dead Cells studios Evil Empire and Motion Twin are working on a new 2D Castlevania adventure, Belmont's Curse.

Team Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation
By Wes Fenlon published
News Dead or Alive 6 is also getting a big update.

'There's no reason for Discord to comply in advance' with social media age verification laws instead of 'fighting for their users' says EFF expert
By Wes Fenlon published
News Discord's plan to require face scans or ID verification is capitulation to overbearing legislation that's still far from universal.

16 days after Highguard's launch, the studio has laid off 'most of the staff'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Just before launch, Highguard devs told PC Gamer it wouldn't need huge player numbers to succeed.

Jason Momoa and Fast & Furious director Justin Lin are teaming up to make a Helldivers movie
By Wes Fenlon published
News The real question: Will the Beastie Boys make it onto the soundtrack?

Microsoft has revoked the DMCA takedown that forced an indie Minecraft-like off Steam
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News Microsoft claimed the indie game uses "Minecraft content."

Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51's studio doesn't benefit much from sales of its old games: 'It's really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Romeo Is a Dead Man is Grasshopper Manufacture's first new self-published release on Steam.

Suda51 says his new game isn't a No More Heroes sequel because series star Travis Touchdown needed a break: 'I could write Travis all day, but dude is exhausted'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Romeo Is a Dead Man is Grasshopper's first wholly original action game in years.

Nioh 3 director says Lies of P was a major source of inspiration while crafting the samurai soulslike's yokai bosses: 'It was great stimulation'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Shoutout to puppets.

The game that coined the term 'visual novel' just got its first-ever fan translation for its 30th anniversary
By Wes Fenlon published
News Shizuku, an adult game released in 1996, birthed a whole new genre. Kinda.

'It's Whac-a-Mole of terror for the city you love:' Gaming channel MinnMax asks viewers to 'share what's happening to residents in Minneapolis, Minnesota when 3,000 ICE agents storm the city'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Viewers show overwhelming support for the gaming outlet's stance on ICE.

13 years after the disappointment of Resident Evil 6, Capcom is finally fusing survival horror and all-out action again—and this time I think it worked
By Wes Fenlon published
Undead Kennedys Resident Evil Requiem is in fine forms, both new and old.

Fable has 1,000 'handcrafted' NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them
By Wes Fenlon published
News Polygamy achievement unlocked?

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome
By Wes Fenlon published
News Just the Browser removes a bunch of AI cruft and telemetry garbage, and it's incredibly easy to use. It supports Firefox and Edge, too!
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