Articles by Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor

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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 (opens in new tab) for his entire life.

Articles by: Wes Fenlon

Heroic Game Launcher running on a Steam Deck

Valve is about to slash the file sizes of the Steam Deck's SSD-hogging shader caches in half

By Wes Fenlon published 12 April 23

News An upcoming graphics driver update will free up some precious gigabytes on our Steam Decks.

BotW multiplayer screenshot by PointCrow

In 2021 a YouTuber offered $10K to whoever could make a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod, and now you can play it

By Wes Fenlon published 10 April 23

News The Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod turns Nintendo's open world masterpiece into a 32-player free-for-all.

Halo creative lead Joseph Staten leaves Microsoft 3 months after heavy layoffs at 343 Industries

By Wes Fenlon published 8 April 23

News After nearly a decade at Microsoft, Staten is moving on.

Kerbal creator figured out an ingenious way to redesign his new flight sim's map: import it from Cities: Skylines

By Wes Fenlon published 28 March 23

News Using one indie game to build another.

Kerbal's creator is back with a new model vehicle sim, says 'early access is not what it used to be'

By Wes Fenlon published 28 March 23

News With the backing of an indie publisher, Kitbash Model Club will be out this year.

GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is coming to Steam this year

By Wes Fenlon published 28 March 23

News One of the PC's premiere emulators is about to become trivially easy to install.

Dwarf Fortress devs on big Adventure mode plans: 'This is just gonna blow everyone's mind'

By Wes Fenlon published 27 March 23

New quest Most Dwarf Fortress players have likely never touched its roguelike mode, but when it finally arrives on Steam, it'll be a major update.

Lies of P is so blatantly Bloodborne that I feel bad for liking it

By Wes Fenlon published 24 March 23

Bloodynose I'm not proud of falling for the copycat, but this is where the lack of Bloodborne on PC has led me.

Oh god I'm gonna play 300 hours of Risk of Rain again

By Wes Fenlon published 23 March 23

News Risk of Rain was a "just one more run" roguelike a decade ago, and the new remake hasn't lost a step.

head on image of open Framework gaming laptop on presentation floor, abstract desktop background in Windows with RGB keyboard, speakers on side, chrome furnishing and slim black bezels

Are we finally going to get a modular gaming laptop that sticks?

By Wes Fenlon published 23 March 23

News Framework has spent the last two years proving modular laptops are doable. Now they're coming for gaming.

Dwarf Fortress's Tarn Adams needs your help finding a very special guitar

By Wes Fenlon published 22 March 23

PSA After the success of the Steam release, Tarn Adams is looking to splurge on just the right instrument.

The best deals in the 2023 Steam Spring Sale

By Tyler Wilde published 16 March 23

deals Spring cleaning? Not for our Steam accounts! There are deals to be had.

Image of the Steam Deck playing Frostpunk.

SteamOS 3.5 is almost here, includes a fix for the Steam Deck's sneakiest performance bug

By Wes Fenlon published 15 March 23

News SteamOS 3.5 includes a new linux kernel, graphics driver and a fix for a nasty SMT performance bug.

Vampire Survivors on the Steam Deck outside

Valve likes the idea of an OLED Steam Deck, too, but says it isn't as simple as it sounds

By Wes Fenlon published 14 March 23

News Swapping to a new screen is "a bigger amount of work than people are assuming it would be."

So Starfield's still going to be really buggy, right?

By Wes Fenlon published 9 March 23

🤔 Starfield's getting some extra development time, but will that be enough to avoid a typical Bethesda launch?

I am begging you to stop adding loot to games that don't need it

By Wes Fenlon published 8 March 23

Trash tier Loot is bloating more and and more of today's games with useless filler items and inventory management. It doesn't have to be this way!

Here's a closer look at what's new (and what's still the same) in Resident Evil 4 Remake

By Wes Fenlon published 2 March 23

Video We go over new RE4 Remake footage with a microscope.

The PC games, betas, and events we're most excited about in March

By Tyler Wilde published 2 March 23

📆 Two Diablo 4 betas, Resident Evil 4 Remake, TLOU, and everything else in PC gaming we're paying attention to in March.

'Too early access for early access'—players react to Kerbal Space Program 2 launch

By Wes Fenlon published 27 February 23

News Poor performance and bugs top the list of complaints, but some players are disappointed to see features missing that KSP had 10 years ago.

Crime Boss: Rockay City's FPS heists are the GTA we have at home

By Wes Fenlon published 27 February 23

Hands-on Rockay City feels like the kind of game Uwe Boll would've turned into a movie.

A screenshot of Elden Ring by jim2point0 showing Raya Lucaria

The secret to Elden Ring's open world success is uncopyable

By Wes Fenlon published 24 February 23

1 Year Later Don't expect big budget games to try to mimic Elden Ring, because they can't copy what made it a phenomenon.

Based on Dark Souls' DLC history, here's when we think Elden Ring will get an expansion

By Wes Fenlon published 23 February 23

Charted A timeline of FromSoftware's expansions gives us some clues to Elden Ring's future.

New Steam feature lets you copy games to the Steam Deck (or between PCs) without redownloading

By Wes Fenlon published 17 February 23

This will make bandwidth caps a lot less stressful.

PC gamers are getting fed up with one shitty port after another

By Wes Fenlon published 17 February 23

Stutter city Everything comes to PC now, but it sure feels like there's something wrong with practically every major release.

Wild Hearts review

By Wes Fenlon published 16 February 23

Honster Munter Strong combat let down by PC performance issues, far too few monsters and finicky building system.

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