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

I played the final preview build of Monster Hunter Wilds, and the 2 beasts I hunted were the best kind of absolute freaks
By Wes Fenlon published
Oddjobbers Wilds is almost here, and I can't wait to see how much nastier its monsters will get.

Forget hunting: You should play the Monster Hunter Wilds beta this weekend to spend as much time as you want in the character creator
By Wes Fenlon published
News Who needs monsters when you can make faces this nice?

The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is now live
By Wes Fenlon published
News The open beta is accessible on Steam and consoles from February 6-9 and February 13-16.

9 Windows 11 settings we recommend changing
By Tyler Colp last updated
Optimize Make your PC life a little nicer.

The Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark is here, and my poor RTX 3070 is now crying sub-60 fps tears
By Wes Fenlon published
News Monster Hunter Wilds is forcing me to make some difficult sacrifices, though DLSS 4 looks like it's going to help my aging GPU.

Monster Hunter Wilds will have a photo mode and new 'hunter profiles' to help you show off your character
By Wes Fenlon published
News Out with the old guild cards, in with the new, highly customizable hunter profiles.

Capcom announces a remaster of samurai classic Onimusha 2, coming to Steam this year
By Wes Fenlon published
News Six years after releasing the first Onimusha on PC, Capcom's finally giving Onimusha 2 its due.

Doom: The Dark Ages is out in just 4 months, with 'a grounded combat system with an emphasis on power over the acrobatics of Doom Eternal'
By Wes Fenlon published
news A Hell of a surprise from today's Xbox Developer Direct.

Mai in Street Fighter 6 isn't just good—she has me howling for Capcom vs. SNK 3
By Wes Fenlon published
News If this was a trial run for a future crossover fighter, Capcom hit a bullseye.

When does Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth unlock on PC?
By Wes Fenlon published
News Here's exactly when you can start downloading Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on Steam.

The animator behind some of Castlevania's greatest moments racked up another instant classic with Nocturne Season 2's most intense scene
By Wes Fenlon published
News Before animating Maria's fiery attack on the church in Nocturne, Tam Lu previously worked on expressive showdowns in Castlevania's third and fourth seasons.

Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 both rushes and drags, but finally arrives at its best action scenes ever
By Wes Fenlon published
Richter Scale A more ambitious but uneven second season still has it where it really counts.

Saints Row: The Third cheats
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Saintly Become the king of Saints Row with these cheats for Saints Row: The Third. And yes, they do work in the remastered version.

Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

The best laptop games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Updated Great laptop games run on low-spec systems and work well with trackpads and smaller screens.

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.

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.
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