
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

Elden Ring Nightreign director didn't want to 'encroach too much' on the lore fans hold sacred by including Dark Souls bosses, but admits 'I thought it'd be kind of fun'
By Wes Fenlon published
News Nightreign's roguelike structure demanded variety.

Capcom is so devoted to samurai authenticity with the new Onimusha, it went and licensed the face of Japan's most legendary actor
By Wes Fenlon published
News Onimusha: Way of the Sword got Toshiro Mifune.

Stellar Blade launches on Steam in June
By Wes Fenlon published
News The PS5 action game comes to PC just over a year after its debut.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater finally has a confirmed release date: August 28
By Joshua Wolens last updated
News The remake got a new trailer at Sony's February State of Play.

Nvidia didn't send the Monster Hunter Wilds devs any RTX 5000 cards before their CES reveal, so official DLSS 4 support is still in progress
By Wes Fenlon published
News On the bright side, you can already use DLSS 4 in Monster Hunter Wilds thanks to DLSS Swapper.

I'd be a nervous wreck, but Monster Hunter Wilds' producer is 'very confident' following up Capcom's bestselling game ever
By Wes Fenlon published
News Will Wilds be able to pass Monster Hunter: World's 28 million sales?

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.

Elden Ring: Nightreign hands-on: 6 hours with FromSoftware's wild new co-op roguelike action RPG remix
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Played it We played the new Elden Ring spin-off and talked with FromSoftware about what to expect from the 2025 game.

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 last updated
News FromSoftware isn't going down the Fortnite path just yet.

FromSoftware's next game is an Elden Ring spin-off called Nightreign, and it's coming next year
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News Nightreign is Elden Ring crossed with a roguelike, and we've played it.

Elden Ring: Nightreign will include a character built around Shadow of the Erdtree's parry mechanic
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News There's a character for the Bloodborne fans, and there's one for the Sekiro fans, too.

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 last updated
News When you die, you can now leave a remnant of your sick loot behind for another player.
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