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

Mega Crit Games' Casey Yano
Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'

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News Can you deduce precisely what Mega Crit is working on?

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'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip

By Wes Fenlon Published

News This would be like us saying 'Remember the good old days of, uh, 2016?'

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The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation

By Wes Fenlon Published

Exposé The hard-hitting reporting no other gaming website would dare to publish.

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Exposé
Somehow a movie that gave me nightmares as a kid has been turned into the delightful metroidvania palate cleanser I needed after Silksong

By Wes Fenlon Published

Dreamboat Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland is more daydream than nightmare.

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Too Many F*cking Nazis is the name of a new Steam FPS, and coincidentally an accurate description of its Steam community forums

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Apparently a controversial idea for a videogame in 2026?

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Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Cops are out, spies are in.

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Adam Jensen and JC Denton side by side
Deus Ex: Human Revolution could've had a track from the original game's composer but it was rejected for not being the 'right fit,' and in hindsight he says they were right

By Andy Chalk Published

news Eidos Montreal wanted to put its own stamp on Deus Ex after it took over the series, and that meant it wanted music from an entirely different composer.

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It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year

By Wes Fenlon Published

News AI's impact on audio production has, of course, become a hot topic in the game music world.

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'I'm not sure it was a rational decision': Caves of Qud devs ported the roguelike to Nintendo Switch because they're 'interested in solving impossible problems'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Well well well, not so impossible to make an impossible port now, is it?

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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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