
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

All the announcements from the 2025 Xbox Games Showcase
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Recap Join us for another round of new trailers and big announcements as we cover this year's Xbox Games Showcase.

Garbage Country seems like it's just about lo-fi beats to off-road to, but it's sneakily a tower defense game against post-apocalyptic trash bots
By Wes Fenlon published
PCGS 2025 I did not see that twist coming.

Modulus looks like a must-play factory game for anyone who loves a thousand little parts on a hundred conveyor belts moving in perfect rhythm
By Wes Fenlon published
PCGS 2025 Modulus also has an extra hook: designing your own factory parts.

Cozy shop sim Trash Goblin invites you to build your own colorful doodads, but I'm convinced its real star is the smolderingly sexy Mushromeo
By Wes Fenlon published
PCGS 2025 The scrounging, upcycling shop sim full of colorful customers just left early access.

Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
By Wes Fenlon last updated
SGF 2025 Everything revealed in a day packed full of announcements and WORLD PREMIERES.

Our first look at 007 First Light is finally here, and oh no: I'm pretty sure this Bond was born in the year 2000
By Wes Fenlon published
News Young, smirky Bond looks an awful lot like Dexter: New Blood actor Patrick Gibson.

Almost exactly 5 years after it was announced, Capcom's astronaut action game Pragmata finally has a release date: 'It's real'
By Wes Fenlon published
News But it's still a wait: Pragmata's due in 2026.

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.

Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess build, tips, and best weapons guide
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Spellblade From poison daggers to glintstone-slinging staves, Duchess is one of Nightreign's deadliest characters with the right builds.

Elden Ring Nightreign is the first FromSoftware game that I honestly wish I could play on easy
By Wes Fenlon published
Going rogue Nightreign would be a much stickier roguelike if its randomness extended to easier, and more varied, challenges.

If you want to play Elden Ring Nightreign in a duo, the Seamless Co-op mod is already out, dead simple to use, and it won't mess up your vanilla save
By Ted Litchfield published
news A bafflingly good mod, out less than a day after launch.

Elden Ring Nightreign guide: all our advice for surviving the night in one place
By Andrea Shearon published
Roundup Enter your next Nightreign run prepared with our guides to weapons, nightfarers, bosses and more.

This narrative thriller takes place in a fictional '80s OS, and the devs obsessed over keeping just the right amount of old school jank: 'We did retain the dial-up modem'
By Justin Wagner published
News Vice Undercover introduces the world wide web into the already harrowing world of Reagan-era drug control.

Warhammer 40,000 games Darktide and Rogue Trader enjoyed a sales bump due to the popularity of Space Marine 2
By Jody Macgregor published
News A rising warptide lifts all voidcraft.

Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry's one and only cowboy poet
By Wes Fenlon published
Eulogy Leif was a historian, a fountain pen connoisseur, and a kind soul who brought a remarkably eclectic background to his time writing about games.

Elden Ring co-op guide: with Seamless Co-op mod and without
By Wes Fenlon last updated
helping hand What you need to know about Elden Ring's co-op mod, PvP, and multiplayer experience.

How to complete Blaidd's quest in Elden Ring
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Blaidd and soul You can even nab Blaidd's wolf armor later in the game, too.

Remembering The Witcher 3's toughest choices (and the objectively correct answers)
By Wes Fenlon published
Hard calls Even in an RPG full of dicey outcomes, these moments in The Witcher 3 still stand out.

Why we're still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10 years later
By Wes Fenlon published
👑 Revisiting the Bloody Baron, Gwent, and everything else that kept us coming back.

The best Witcher 3 characters
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Ranked These are the characters who make The Witcher 3 one of the best RPGs of all time.

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.

Spanish TV news uses Dark Souls 3 boss fight to illustrate, with 100% accuracy, how the conclave will elect a new Pope
By Wes Fenlon published
News This is truly the Dark Souls of old guys voting.

The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.
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