Wesley Fenlon

Aug 21, 2023 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Wesley Fenlon

Metal Gear - Solid Snake's faces over timeThe news that the upcoming Metal Gear Master Collection wouldn't support mouse and keyboard on PC was a clue—and a warning—that Konami was not aiming for a top-to-bottom remaster of its most beloved series.

Aug 19, 2023 | pcgamer.com | Wesley Fenlon

I'm the first journalist in the world who's laid hands on the new sci-fi strategy game from the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, and I've just broken it to pieces in front of them. I'm having a great time. Every time I preview a game that has unfinished art and narrative dead-ends scattered around like landmines, there's the potential for an awkward moment where the game flat-out breaks.

Aug 17, 2023 | pcgamer.com | Wesley Fenlon

Nine months since launch, Warhammer 40K: Darktide sits on Steam with a "Mixed" review score, both in recent and all-time reviews. There were more than a few criticisms of Darktide at launch—the unfinished crafting system, the cosmetics store, crashes and performance issues—but one of the most common and consistent I've seen is that Darktide has only four character classes, compared to its predecessor Vermintide 2's five characters (with multiple subclasses apiece).

Aug 17, 2023 | readonlymemo.com | Wesley Fenlon

Hello ROM readers new and old! After about five months of working on this newsletter about emulation, it's grown to more than a thousand subscribers and even more regular readers who come to the site with each new issue. In that same span of time, a megalomaniac has sent Twitter into a shitspiral and the brainiacs in charge of Reddit have managed to alienate the most dedicated members of many of their subcommunities.

Aug 13, 2023 | readonlymemo.com | Wesley Fenlon

With nothing but steely, jet-fuel-proof force of will, I’ve resisted the temptation to turn Read Only Memo into a Baldur’s Gate 3 newsletter. This was no easy feat: as I write this Saturday night, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been the bestselling game on Steam for a week and change, practically everyone I know is playing it even if they don’t normally give a lick about CRPGs, and I would be playing it every waking moment if I wasn’t patiently waiting to experience it alongside my co-op crew.