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
It seems like Square's finally consistently taking the PC ports of Final Fantasy seriously
By Wes Fenlon published
News Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's PC features are looking much, much better than Remake's.
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
By Phil Savage published
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
The Witcher 3's now 2-year-old bonus quest is our first taste of the 'vibe' CD Projekt is going for in The Witcher 4
By Wes Fenlon published
Fired Up Revisiting In the Eternal Fire's Shadow to see if CD Projekt's still got the goods.
The best co-op games to drag your pals into
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
AMD announces more powerful Ryzen Z2 Series processors for future PC handhelds, but Valve says 'there is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck'
By Jacob Ridley published
News AMD says Valve will be using one of its latest processors, the Z2 Series, inside a new Steam Deck, but Valve says otherwise.
Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Prepare An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.
The best PC games right now
By Tyler Wilde last updated
What to play Looking for a great new PC game? Here's what we're playing in 2025.
After 2024, it feels like the games industry is poised for a vibe shift—or maybe a reckoning
By Wes Fenlon published
Ready? This year's trends and hardships are setting up 2025 to be a year of big change.
Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring – Shadow of the Erdtree
By Tyler Colp published
🏆 FromSoft does it again.
Best Sandbox 2024: Satisfactory
By Wes Fenlon published
🏆 Take a lush, alien world. Turn it into a factory.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is so authentically Indiana Jones it should probably be called Henry Jones Jr. and the Great Circle
By Wes Fenlon published
🏆 MachineGames' latest is a triumph.
You should definitely grab today's free Epic Store giveaway: this 'dicebuilder' might quietly be the best freebie of the season
By Wes Fenlon published
News Astrea is a six-sided gem in a sea of 2D card games.
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Winter Sale
By Tyler Wilde published
deals The last Steam sale of the year is here, and we've combed it for great discounts on brand new games and our favorite classics.
The mother of all XCOM 2 mods just got its first update in a year, with 9445 words of patch notes proving it worthy of the Long War name
By Wes Fenlon published
News Long War of the Chosen 1.2 is now live on Steam with "a ton of new content and tweaks."
The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.
Elden Ring: Nightreign's director remembers the one big bit of advice he got from Hidetaka Miyazaki: 'Do it as you please'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Who could ask for a better show of support from the big boss himself?
My favorite little Elden Ring: Nightreign feature is the first evolution of FromSoftware's iconic 'bloodstains' since 2009's Demon's Souls, and has roots in a roguelike from way back in 1987
By Wes Fenlon published
News When you die, you can now leave a remnant of your sick loot behind for another player.
If you want to play Elden Ring: Nightreign as soon as possible, good news: It'll have a Network Test in February
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News The Elden Ring roguelike spin-off is out sometime in 2025, but as usual you'll get to try it before release.
Elden Ring: Nightreign will include a character built around Shadow of the Erdtree's parry mechanic
By Wes Fenlon published
News There's a character for the Bloodborne fans, and there's one for the Sekiro fans, too.
The Game Awards were stacked with even more big reveals than we expected this year
By Lauren Morton published
Roundup This year's show had tons of reveals that would have been the "one more thing" in another year.
What the heck is Elden Ring: Nightreign? Our big explainer covering new characters, loot, roguelike mechanics and more
By Wes Fenlon published
Nightsplained Everything we can tell you from spending a full day playing FromSoftware's new roguelike spin-off.
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