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 for his entire life.

Articles by: Wes Fenlon

'I don't think players expect this': Warhammer 40K: Darktide is adding RPG-style skill trees full of new abilities to its 4 classes

By Wes Fenlon published 17 August 23

News Darktide's developers have spent the last 10 months working on a complete overhaul of its disappointing class system.

PSA: You can improve DLSS in Baldur's Gate 3 with this easy 3 minute tweak

By Wes Fenlon published 11 August 23

News Use DLSS Swapper to upgrade Baldur's Gate 3's AI upscaling. There's really no downside.

If you're playing Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer, Larian's boss has advice on what to do with companions: ignore them

By Wes Fenlon published 10 August 23

Focus Whether singleplayer or multiplayer, you'll have the best time focusing on your party and ignoring the companions you don't have room for.

'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral

By Wes Fenlon published 8 August 23

News When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.

Larian's boss worried Baldur's Gate 3 had peaked in early access, so its massive 800K concurrent player launch was 'way, way beyond' expectations

By Wes Fenlon published 7 August 23

News While there are "a lot of smiling faces" around the office, Larian's now focused on bug fixes and finishing the PS5 release.

'We haven't started on an expansion' to Baldur's Gate 3, Larian says, but it's not completely off the table

By Wes Fenlon published 7 August 23

News A level 12-20 D&D adventure would pose major new design challenges.

There's already a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that lets you multiclass on Explorer difficulty

By Wes Fenlon published 3 August 23

News By default Baldur's Gate 3's easiest difficulty option disables multiclassing.

I'm so excited for Baldur's Gate 3 co-op, but scheduling a 100-hour D&D campaign with 4 adults is truly chaotic evil

By Wes Fenlon published 1 August 23

Hard mode It'll be a miracle if we finish Baldur's Gate 3 in under six months.

All Path of Exile 1 and 2 microtransactions will be usable in both games unless they're 'hyper-specific to the content of one of them'

By Wes Fenlon published 28 July 23

News Don't worry about losing access to any of your precious skins.

An Armored Core sketch and designer Shoji Kawamori

FromSoftware still has at least one secret up its sleeve for Armored Core 6: the mecha designers

By Wes Fenlon published 27 July 23

News Did beloved mecha artist Shoji Kawamori return for the revival of Armored Core? We asked.

Despite the intense action, FromSoftware wants Armored Core 6 to have a 'dark old sci-fi feel' with a 'sense of loneliness and nostalgia'

By Wes Fenlon published 26 July 23

News FromSoftware tells us how longtime composer Kota Hoshino helps set each game's tone.

Armored Core 6 has a 120 fps option, a FromSoftware first on PC

By Wes Fenlon published 25 July 23

News Glorious mechs, glorious frames.

FromSoftware made Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 with a staff of just 300 developers

By Wes Fenlon published 25 July 23

News The maker of last year's biggest game remains modestly sized by triple-A standards.

Armored Core 6 is even more like classic Armored Core than I thought

By Wes Fenlon published 25 July 23

Core Kept Short missions, tons of customization and a lock-on system that straddles the old and the new.

Armored Core 6 will have 1v1 duels and 3v3 multiplayer that's like a 'mecha festival with metal flying everywhere'

By Wes Fenlon published 25 July 23

News Despite focusing on singleplayer, FromSoftware still gave Armored Core PvP a bit of love.

My favorite offbeat roguelike of the decade is free to keep on Steam

By Wes Fenlon published 24 July 23

News Tower defense / roguelike hybrid Dungeon of the Endless is currently 100% off.

There's only one thing I want to know about Baldur's Gate 3: Can I turn my enemies into chickens?

By Wes Fenlon published 22 July 23

Spell quest Does Divinity: Original Sin 2's best polymorph skill have a Baldur's Gate 3 counterpart? Don't let me down, D&D.

Armored Core 6 'story trailer' implies Armored Core 6 needs a story beyond dope mechs doing dope shit

By Wes Fenlon published 20 July 23

News This story trailer is a thin excuse to watch a three minute cinematic of sick mechanized action. I'll take it.

After being kicked off Steam, Dolphin emulator devs say Nintendo's legal claim 'is a reach': 'Now that we have talked to a lawyer, we are no longer concerned'

By Wes Fenlon published 20 July 23

News "The lawyers representing Nintendo... wished to create a narrative where the DMCA's exemptions do not apply to us, as these exemptions are powerful and widely in our favor."

Exoprimal has crossplay, but there's a big catch

By Wes Fenlon published 14 July 23

Half Cross Exoprimal's crossplay currently only works for matchmaking, not for playing with friends.

Microsoft just fixed a Zune compatibility issue in the year 2023

By Wes Fenlon published 13 July 23

News Thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy, the Zune is having its biggest year since it, well, died.

Baldur's Gate 3 — A close-up screenshot of a Drow character in Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3 dev clarifies that only PS5 players will get a 3-day head start for pre-ordering, but PC players get a 34-day head start anyway so it's fine

By Wes Fenlon published 13 July 23

News August 3 really is the earliest anyone's going to be playing the full release of Baldur's Gate 3.

A new PS4 emulator is in development from the creator of RPCS3, though it's likely years away from running games

By Wes Fenlon published 3 July 23

News RPCSX aims to make PS4 games—and probably even PS5 games, someday—playable on PC.

Here's how to permanently wipe OneDrive folders from your PC if they keep recreating themselves

By Wes Fenlon published 30 June 23

Banished Even after you uninstall OneDrive, its presence can linger in Windows 11. Here's how to fix that.

A Baldur's Gate 3 character casting a spell

What if Baldur's Gate 3 isn't just getting out of Starfield's way by launching a month early—what if it's better?

By Wes Fenlon published 30 June 23

Face-Off Baldur's Gate 3's new release date may be setting us up for another Disco Elysium vs The Outer Worlds situation.

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