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

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.

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A vampire holding a glass of wine or blood, probably blood, knowing vampires
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.

Speedcrawling
The Github Logo on a phone in front of the words "Let's build from here"
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.

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Titanium Court jazz
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.

Courtly
Control vs. Control Resonant
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.

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Change-up
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.

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Castlevania: Belmont's Curse art
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.

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Dead or Alive 7
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.

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'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.

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highguard
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.

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Jason Momoa peeking out from the side of the screen in front of a Helldivers trooper
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?

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A screenshot showing trees and sky
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."

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Suda51 posing in front of a TV showing Romeo Is a Dead Man
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.

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No More Heroes 3 key art of Travis Touchdown facing off against an angry enemy
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.

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Paired screenshots of a Lies of P puppet boss and a Nioh 3 samurai warlord.
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.

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Shizuku pixel art of a school girl standing on a roof at sunset
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.

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MinnMax podcasters discuss the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, Minnesota
'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.

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Resident Evil Requiem survival horror
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.

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Undead Kennedys
Fable has 1,000 'handcrafted' NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Polygamy achievement unlocked?

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Just the Browser showing an example browser tab with no mess on it
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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An anthropomorphic cat from the movie Cats holding a can of sparkly catnip
Google's AI overview search results are so dumb, it took author Chuck Wendig just weeks to convince it he has a cat named 'Sir Mewlington Von Pissbreath' that can speak 'limited Cantonese'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Chuck Wendig does not have a cat.

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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

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

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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

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

Roguepunch
Switch 2 Pro Controller front
How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

By Wes Fenlon Last updated

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

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

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