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
![Best Sandbox 2024: Satisfactory](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4LcJJyVEYdpFuBPvEDAfpQ-320-80.jpg)
Best Sandbox 2024: Satisfactory
By Wes Fenlon published
🏆 Take a lush, alien world. Turn it into a factory.
![Indiana Jones and the Great Circle](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DgY48rB5MFcTN9HsQBbtWJ-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xDMbLbHrfaCV6bGcf5xTdQ-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Dragon Age character Varric looking confidently forward with allies behind him](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T9ZEc7MiJP9usifXcWuBzM-320-80.jpg)
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.
![XCOM 2: Shen's Last Gift DLC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2A9FprWpi2VZPn576vwsSJ-320-80.jpg)
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."
![Vampire Survivors on the Steam Deck outside](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ipeAcTUdGYaexQjq5dvy7Q-320-80.jpg)
The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.
![Junya Ishizaki next to an image from Elden Ring: Nightreign](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gxp4CevkK8w84ia4Sb3rEW-320-80.jpg)
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?
![Elden Ring: Nightreign treasure](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xs8NaRfwtsMVcB6LCxjWif-320-80.jpg)
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.
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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 parry character](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8mQuXjgEXqNaAdPsLfoQWP-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Elden Ring: Nightreign](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/89aAz6rJTev7EvLwS3gQxP-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Elden Ring: Nightreign](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hfZfDUSavnj2Un8Ty3ERTV-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Elden Ring: Nightreign](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9A2ApaPXgm57akWR5iAkwN-320-80.jpg)
Elden Ring: Nightreign 'is not what we consider a live service game,' says FromSoftware: 'We wanted to have a game that felt like a complete package'
By Wes Fenlon published
News FromSoftware isn't going down the Fortnite path just yet.
![Elden Ring: Nightreign mage](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/66q8V7jHbcXE3GaxxmpKaf-320-80.jpg)
Elden Ring: Nightreign hands-on: 6 hours with FromSoftware's wild new co-op roguelike action RPG remix
By Wes Fenlon published
Played it We played the new Elden Ring spin-off and talked with FromSoftware about what to expect from the 2025 game.
![GenDesign's untitled sci-fi game](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/926732jxCWQzxxtsYy7BP9-320-80.png)
8 years after The Last Guardian and almost 20 since Shadow of the Colossus, Fumito Ueda's new game is finally announced—and it's sci-fi this time
By Wes Fenlon published
News The new game, published by Epic, was announced at the 2024 Game Awards.
![Elden Ring: Nightreign](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TQ4yMinXKTGq44YGhoyqPV-320-80.jpg)
FromSoftware's next game is an Elden Ring spin-off called Nightreign, and it's coming next year
By Wes Fenlon published
News Nightreign is Elden Ring crossed with a roguelike, and we've played it.
![Avowed](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8FFe6CMyaYmmE8KTDq24Ao-320-80.jpg)
Watch Avowed's director set a new speed record for answering our questions about Obsidian's upcoming RPG
By Wes Fenlon published
Q&A Carrie Patel joined The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted ahead of Avowed's release in February.
![Wizard of Legend 2 key art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/H4tinWNC3uAwyqZPbVM6tg-320-80.jpg)
Wizard of Legend 2, one of this year's most under-the-radar roguelites, is getting a chonky update next week
By Wes Fenlon published
News The wizard action game hasn't been in early access long, and it's already seeing some big additions.
![Cult of the Lamb: Relics of the Old Faith art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UxpN8skMqHu6aVr59ETEF5-320-80.jpg)
The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.
![Metaphor: ReFantazio](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yFxEt6bBZiFNSWUi6KzCWC-320-80.png)
Black Friday Steam sale alternatives: Even cheaper PC gaming deals
By Wes Fenlon published
Deal The Steam Autumn sale isn't the only game in town.
![Avowed screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XrYfkKMeyoVMdLacEWbdHf-320-80.jpg)
My favorite thing about Avowed might just be how much stuff it lets me turn off
By Wes Fenlon published
Fiddler Avowed's deep commitment to UI options is one of its greatest strengths.
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