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

Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Free keys An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.

Steam may have just thrown its weight behind bullet heaven, but last week's standout game was a one-of-a-kind bullet hell FPS
By Wes Fenlon published
HELLISH Luna Abyss was a long time coming, but I'm already hoping for more of its kind.

Dawn of War 2 review (2009)
By Tom Francis published
The Great War Space Marines, ding gratz lol.

Why play Wordle when you could be playing this new word puzzle game that rewards you with frogs?
By Wes Fenlon published
News It's Ribbit!

There is no discovery on this earth more pure than a closet full of your dad's '90s big box PC games
By Wes Fenlon published
News Those really were the days.

Sorry, Black Flag fans: the new Assassin's Creed remake isn't adding any more legendary ship battles
By Wes Fenlon published
News The one thing I hoped to see more of.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a textbook remaster
By Wes Fenlon published
Sails up The spitting image of the game I remember, despite how much it's actually changed.

In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?
By Wes Fenlon published
🕵️ Re-examining an old quote from Valve's Gabe Newell reveals a big gap in what we know about Doom's popularity.

Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is a good roguelite shooter, but a little less special than the game that spawned it
By Wes Fenlon published
Undershot Rogue Core is a bit too conservative for its own good.

Troy Baker and Austin Wintory talk becoming Indiana Jones and writing death metal polkas for Counter-Strike
By Wes Fenlon published
Video The key to a great artistic collaboration? Saying yes to every wild idea.

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag star Matt Ryan says the term 'voice actor' is outdated: 'You see the performances in the eyes, it blows me away'
By Wes Fenlon published
"We need to rejig the vernacular."

It's official: Steam decrees 'bullet heaven' the name of the Vampire Survivors genre
By Wes Fenlon published
News Wuxia, desktop companion, cleaning, and capybaras all also got official Steam tags.

Before landing the lead role in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show
By Wes Fenlon published
News Things worked out pretty well for the Edward Kenway actor.

I'm tired of everything getting turned into a roguelite, but I'll make an exception for pinball
By Wes Fenlon published
Uh oh My weakness has been laser targeted.

Sega has canceled its live service 'Super Game' due to 'intensifying market competition,' and I really, really hope it's a sign that the industry is finally correcting itself
By Wes Fenlon published
Day breaks Years of catastrophic bets on F2P mega hits may finally be subsiding.

20 years later, the world deserves another Sid Meier's Railroads!
By Tim Edwards published
Reinstall Just three years after Railroads! came out, we were already reappraising it.

Everyone knows Wolfenstein 3D made the FPS a phenomenon. What this mod presupposes is… what if it didn't?
By Wes Fenlon published
News Isowulf does a remarkably faithful job transforming Wolfenstein 3D into an isometric shooter.

Update: Discord says it's 'seeing significant recovery' after a partial outage
By Wes Fenlon published
news If you can't start up Discord, it's not just you.

'90s virtual reality, Battlefield 2142, and Total War: This month in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
By Wes Fenlon published
From the archives Here's what was happening in PC gaming in May 1996, May 2006, and May 2016.

'I'm bleeding to death:' In 2009, Wurm Online was still the wild frontier of online gaming
By Quintin Smith published
From the Archives In this classic PC Gamer magazine feature, writer Quintin Smith learns how hard life is in fantasy MMO Wurm Online.

Microsoft ended MS-DOS support 20 years ago, but the latest update for the best roguelike ever made still supports it anyway
By Wes Fenlon published
News Break out the old Compaq.

How to use every Xbox controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Guide Tips for connecting Microsoft's Xbox controllers via USB, wireless adapter, or Bluetooth.

How to use the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon last updated
PSPad A quick walkthrough for getting the PS5 controller connected via Bluetooth or USB.
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