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
The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is packed with bonuses, but the barebones ports offer little that PC emulators don't already do better
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Same ol' same ol' Great games with great extras, but there was potential for so much more than ports of games locked at 720p.
Armored Core 6 chest locations: Where to find hidden mech parts
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Scan School Some secret upgrades for your mech are hidden away in Armored Core 6's levels. Here's where to find them.
Armored Core 6: How to beat the chapter 4 Coral Convergence boss
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Pray This Coral monster is Armored Core 6's toughest boss. Here's how to bring it down.
Armored Core 6 Smart Cleaner boss: How to beat the lava-spewing Chapter 2 monster
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Mop up The best AC build and tips for Armored Core 6's Smart Cleaner boss.
Armored Core 6 Balteus boss guide: How to beat the Watchpoint boss
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Artful dodger The best AC build, weapons and strategies for beating Armored Core 6's chapter 1 finale boss Balteus.
Armored Core 6 Operation Wallclimber boss guide: How to beat the Juggernaut
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Climb The best AC build, weapons and strategies for beating Armored Core 6 boss The Juggernaut.
Armored Core 6 guide: 11 tips for surviving on Rubicon
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S-Rank How to wrap your head around Armored Core 6's complex stat system, earn more mech parts, and more.
Here's when Armored Core 6 unlocks in your time zone
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News Armored Core 6 releases on August 24—here's the breakdown by time zone.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon review: every bit the revival this mech series deserved
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Armored & Dangerous FromSoftware does it again.
The makers of Hardspace Shipbreaker are trying to crack a new take on the roguelike deckbuilder
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Exclusive In Earthless, Blackbird Interactive is searching for a new sci-fi strategy frontier.
'I don't think players expect this': Warhammer 40K: Darktide is adding RPG-style skill trees full of new abilities to its 4 classes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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News Don't worry about losing access to any of your precious skins.
FromSoftware still has at least one secret up its sleeve for Armored Core 6: the mecha designers
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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'
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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
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News Glorious mechs, glorious frames.
FromSoftware made Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 with a staff of just 300 developers
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News The maker of last year's biggest game remains modestly sized by triple-A standards.