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
8 overlooked games you might've missed in 2023 (that are rather good)
By Evan Lahti published
👀👀 The Case of the Golden Idol, Stranded Dawn, Dredge, Cultic, and a surprising Pokémon-like with an amazing soundtrack.
There might be more Star Wars games in development than you realize
By Tyler Wilde published
coming soon(ish) An open world Ubisoft game, a Respawn FPS, another shot for Amy Hennig, and more.
I'm so used to old Steam, new Steam's menus kinda freak me out
By Wes Fenlon published
Opinion After so many years, even small changes to Steam really throw me for a loop.
PC gamers are getting really, really fed up with one sh*tty port after another
By Wes Fenlon published
Stutter city It sure seems like there's something wrong with practically every major big-budget release on PC these days.
Street Fighter 6's story mode really is a low-rent Yakuza game and I love it
By Wes Fenlon published
That's rad Capcom found the perfect goofy tone for its first proper Street Fighter adventure.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has leaked on piracy sites, and Nintendo's now in a whack-a-mole war with streamers
By Wes Fenlon published
News Copies being sold early have now made their way to pirate sites, hacked Switches and emulators.
Here's why you have to deal with so many annoying webPs now
By Wes Fenlon published
Google Curse Can't find a dang jpeg to save your life? Here's why webPs are taking over.
I just learned what modem means. My whole life has been a lie
By Wes Fenlon published
🤯 EXCUSE ME?
Dwarf Fortress & Caves of Qud roundtable: The masters of simulation talk roguelikes, AI and making the infinite compelling
By Wes Fenlon published
🎙️ Join us for an hour-long podcast with Dwarf Fortress's Zach and Tarn Adams and Qud's Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat.
Humanity takes the idea 'Lemmings but with people' and turns it into something profound
By Wes Fenlon published
Thinker Humanity's screenfulls of little people create striking images, but there's also a great puzzle game beneath the art.
We talked to the Emulati gearing up to make Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom playable on PC next month
By Wes Fenlon published
Day 1? How long will it take the Switch exclusive to run in emulators Yuzu and Ryujinx? We asked the experts.
'We're running at a f**king wall, and we're gonna crash'—CD Projekt's lead quest designer on big budget RPGs
By Wes Fenlon published
News During an RPG designer roundtable organized by PC Gamer, Cyberpunk 2077 quest director Pawel Sasko and other veterans talk about the "staggering" complexity of triple-A games.
RPG roundtable podcast: Josh Sawyer, Mike Laidlaw, Strix Beltran, Paweł Sasko, and Lis Moberly go deep on writing and playing RPGs
By Wes Fenlon published
🎙️ Listen to our 80-minute discussion with five veteran RPG designers.
The best-named game of the year finally has a release date, and it's just 4 months away
By Wes Fenlon published
News Jet Set Radio's indie successor has been in the works since 2020.
Thanks to the last 5 years of Nintendo emulation, Zelda: Breath of the Wild has one of the best mod scenes in gaming
By Wes Fenlon published
Breathtaking Despite Nintendo's disapproval, interest in modding Breath of the Wild has driven incredible progress in Switch and Wii U emulators.
Aggressive Nintendo copyright strikes on YouTube push Breath of the Wild multiplayer modders into taking down mod
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News Nintendo's lawyers are at it again.
Valve is about to slash the file sizes of the Steam Deck's SSD-hogging shader caches in half
By Wes Fenlon published
News An upcoming graphics driver update will free up some precious gigabytes on our Steam Decks.
Elden Ring co-op guide: Multiplayer tips and the seamless co-op mod explained
By Wes Fenlon last updated
helping hand What you need to know about Elden Ring's co-op, PvP, and seamless multiplayer with a fantastic mod.
In 2021 a YouTuber offered $10K to whoever could make a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod, and now you can play it
By Wes Fenlon published
News The Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod turns Nintendo's open world masterpiece into a 32-player free-for-all.
Halo creative lead Joseph Staten leaves Microsoft 3 months after heavy layoffs at 343 Industries
By Wes Fenlon published
News After nearly a decade at Microsoft, Staten is moving on.
Kerbal creator figured out an ingenious way to redesign his new flight sim's map: import it from Cities: Skylines
By Wes Fenlon published
News Using one indie game to build another.
Kerbal's creator is back with a new model vehicle sim, says 'early access is not what it used to be'
By Wes Fenlon published
News With the backing of an indie publisher, Kitbash Model Club will be out this year.
GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is coming to Steam this year
By Wes Fenlon published
News One of the PC's premiere emulators is about to become trivially easy to install.