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
CD Projekt Red now has more than 300 developers working on The Witcher 4
By Wes Fenlon published
News Nearly half of CD Projekt Red's development staff are in full production on the next Witcher game.
6 things PC Gamer's team actually bought on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
By Wes Fenlon published
Deals The deals that we just couldn't resist.
I built the best gaming PC I could for under $1,200 using Cyber Monday deals, and now I actually want it
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Save about $300 building a mid-range powerhouse with the best gaming CPU around.
Black Friday is now so spread out, this year's deals feel like a complete non-event
By Wes Fenlon published
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The big deal day doesn't hit nearly as hard when deals season stretches on for weeks.
8 things we want from GTA 6
By Christopher Livingston published
wishlist Better NPCs, less sprawl, a well-written female character, official mod support, and more.
12 of the most-read articles in PC Gamer's website history
By Wes Fenlon published
PCG30th We keep on making this website, and people keep on reading it.
After a decade of iMessage dominance, our green bubble nightmare is over: Apple is adopting a universal texting standard with Android next year
By Wes Fenlon published
News Apple will begin to support RCS messaging in 2024, the modern replacement for SMS.
Risk of Rain 2 is getting a second expansion with a new big bad
By Wes Fenlon published
News Seekers of the Storm will also introduce the first Risk of Rain map with alternate day/night versions.
Halo Infinite strains recent fan goodwill with Halo: Combat Evolved cosmetic armor that costs twice as much as Halo: Combat Evolved
By Wes Fenlon published
News The throwback skin's $22 price hasn't gone over particularly well.
Metal Gear Solid 5's Quiet actress reflects on 'very revealing costume': 'I understand the perspective of people not as happy with how she was portrayed'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Stefanie Joosten called working on the game "an absolutely wonderful experience."
'No expense spared and not a single corner cut': After 11 months of work, one of Japan's most beloved PS2 games is finally playable in English
By Wes Fenlon published
News 5000 lines of English translation later, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2's fan translation is complete.
CD Projekt wants the Cyberpunk series to experience 'a similar evolution' to The Witcher games
By Wes Fenlon published
News The Witcher progressed by leaps and bounds across three games. What will Cyberpunk 2 look like?
'This is only the beginning': Metal Gear Solid fans lose their minds as David Hayter returns to voice Solid Snake in a new teaser
By Wes Fenlon published
News The actor last featured in 2010's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 overhaul was inspired by the 'old school design' of Diablo 2's skill trees and Doom's 'relentless' combat
By Wes Fenlon published
News Cyberpunk's gameplay design lead tells us how the team went about redesigning the perk system.
If you're not playing Alan Wake 2 this weekend, one of the best survival horror games of the last decade is currently free to keep
By Wes Fenlon published
News Grab The Evil Within 2 free on the Epic Games Store to own a modern horror classic.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth goes full Animal Crossing, will let you manage an island paradise 'with a cozy DIY lifestyle'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Even Yakuza need a breather.
It took a modder just hours to add 4K support to the Metal Gear Solid collection
By Wes Fenlon published
News MGS1 and MGS2 are locked at 720p on PC, but getting them to run at higher resolutions has turned out to be trivial with a mod.
Squadron 42 looks like it cost the millions it should have, but we're not sold on it yet
By Tyler Wilde published
Star Power Star Citizen's singleplayer campaign goes all in on celebrity actors and Half-Life 2-style environments and puzzles.
Konami says to expect slowdown in some Metal Gear Solid cutscenes, but a patch is coming post-launch
By Wes Fenlon published
News Well, at least the Master Collection's launch issues won't be a surprise.
With only a few holdouts left, we're so close to everything launching on PC it's almost time to retire the phrase 'PC port'
By Wes Fenlon published
De Facto 2023's been rough for PC game performance, but I never want to go back to the dark days of 2000s console ports.
Hail Dracula, Netflix's new Castlevania series has already been renewed for season 2
By Wes Fenlon published
News Castlevania: Nocturne S2 is in production and the wait "won't be quite so long this time," says director.
Armored Core 6 players meme their way through the stages of grief as new patch buffs nearly every weapon but nerfs beloved shotgun and grenade cannon
By Wes Fenlon published
news It was inevitable: the Zimmerman and Songbirds were too good to last.
Here's when Forza Motorsport unlocks in your time zone
By Wes Fenlon published
News When you can play Forza Motorsport's early access release and full release on Steam or Xbox.
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