Wes Fenlon
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Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.
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♥️ Pinball, pizza, travel
💁 Like a million people know me for WASDing wrong my whole life
💻 Here's 10+ years writing at PC Gamer where I'm a senior editor www.pcgamer.com/author/wes-fenlon
💽 Subscribe to my passion project, a free newsletter about emulation!
S3E1 of Jujutsu Kaisen literally bumped the lamp
January 10, 2026 at 7:49 AM
S3E1 of Jujutsu Kaisen literally bumped the lamp
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New post!
I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art.
Get cozy, because this is a big one!
I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art.
Get cozy, because this is a big one!
Diving With Friends | finding treasure in 2025
12 friends share their favorite Japanese art discoveries
www.tsundokudiving.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
New post!
I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art.
Get cozy, because this is a big one!
I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art.
Get cozy, because this is a big one!
90 minutes to kill at Burbank. Do I eat a $26 Guy Fieri hamburger?
January 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
90 minutes to kill at Burbank. Do I eat a $26 Guy Fieri hamburger?
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If you didn't know, there's a fan translation of Super Robot Wars 64 in progress! Follow @roboverse.bsky.social for updates and check the YouTube channel for WIP demos!
Hello please check out our Super Robot Wars 64 English Translation
youtube.com/@roboversetr...
discord.gg/xASU58Er3G
#srw #superrobotwars #srw64 #n64 #Nintendo64 #rpg #rpggame
youtube.com/@roboversetr...
discord.gg/xASU58Er3G
#srw #superrobotwars #srw64 #n64 #Nintendo64 #rpg #rpggame
January 8, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If you didn't know, there's a fan translation of Super Robot Wars 64 in progress! Follow @roboverse.bsky.social for updates and check the YouTube channel for WIP demos!
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Are you at MAGFest? Want to try some preserved keitai games? You're in luck! Come to the Museum/LAN Room and look for @unabandonware.bsky.social's table with 20+ Japanese feature phones! Unabandonware is one of the foremost keitai game preservationists, and she'd love to tell you all about them!
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Are you at MAGFest? Want to try some preserved keitai games? You're in luck! Come to the Museum/LAN Room and look for @unabandonware.bsky.social's table with 20+ Japanese feature phones! Unabandonware is one of the foremost keitai game preservationists, and she'd love to tell you all about them!
Trying to remember the last time my brain didn't just feel like goo
January 8, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Trying to remember the last time my brain didn't just feel like goo
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Reposted by Wes Fenlon
Reposted by Wes Fenlon
A touching tribute to Mike F
![Classic Mike F tweet:
Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g62tajye723r3fa4gqw7l7ql/bafkreiacssf7vnpkyqovhna4mfme3qexnhqifch625ta46ibfzgpswz6ue@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 AM
A touching tribute to Mike F
Anyone showing off a new 4:3 (or 3:2) display at CES? Otherwise, I sleep
January 6, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Anyone showing off a new 4:3 (or 3:2) display at CES? Otherwise, I sleep
Reposted by Wes Fenlon
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
It's gonna be hard for Microsoft to sink lower than 2025, but I believe in Satya Nadella
January 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM
It's gonna be hard for Microsoft to sink lower than 2025, but I believe in Satya Nadella
hold up, we're still doing email?
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
hold up, we're still doing email?
Baxter wears his heart on his sleeve with everything he writes, so of course it's taken a beating in this cruel world. Read this fantastic piece on Linda Cube and then send him a few dollars if you can spare them!
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
as I move increasingly quickly towards open heart surgery this year, consider....
if you like the stuff I'm doing on Tsundoku Diving and elsewhere (and you have some spare change) consider throwing a dollar or two my way! normally it'd go towards site maintenance, but you know, circumstances
if you like the stuff I'm doing on Tsundoku Diving and elsewhere (and you have some spare change) consider throwing a dollar or two my way! normally it'd go towards site maintenance, but you know, circumstances
Support Baxter
Support Baxter
ko-fi.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Baxter wears his heart on his sleeve with everything he writes, so of course it's taken a beating in this cruel world. Read this fantastic piece on Linda Cube and then send him a few dollars if you can spare them!
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
www.tsundokudiving.com/talking-game...
I expect game decompilations and N64 Recompiled to be one of the big topics in the retro scene this year, so I've launched an ongoing project: keeping track of them on a page that's as nicely laid and useful out as I can make it!
Decompilation projects and N64 Recompiled PC ports (Jan 2026)
A guide to the playable and upcoming retro game decomps and recompilations, updated monthly.
readonlymemo.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I expect game decompilations and N64 Recompiled to be one of the big topics in the retro scene this year, so I've launched an ongoing project: keeping track of them on a page that's as nicely laid and useful out as I can make it!
Reposted by Wes Fenlon
Upcoming PS1 Fan translation project that i'm so excited and looking forward in 2026 and beyond
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Upcoming PS1 Fan translation project that i'm so excited and looking forward in 2026 and beyond
Low key an incredible game and successor to one of the XBLA goats, Marble Blast Ultra. Get marbled!!
Marble It Up! Ultra is $7.49 on Steam buff.ly/QSrYLg9
US PS+ buff.ly/s9orAxB
$11.99 XBL buff.ly/XNc946a
Switch $14.56 at VGP buff.ly/pRt1mLC
Deck verified
US PS+ buff.ly/s9orAxB
$11.99 XBL buff.ly/XNc946a
Switch $14.56 at VGP buff.ly/pRt1mLC
Deck verified
January 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Low key an incredible game and successor to one of the XBLA goats, Marble Blast Ultra. Get marbled!!
Reposted by Wes Fenlon
Reposted by Wes Fenlon
My end-of-year Hidden Gems list is up on PC Gamer! They asked me for 15. I did 30. Somehow, Weird Little Guys and The Apocalypse were a theme.
2025 was terrible in every other regard, but the games? Good.
I also just updated my Steam Curator Page with all the stuff in the feature and a few others.
2025 was terrible in every other regard, but the games? Good.
I also just updated my Steam Curator Page with all the stuff in the feature and a few others.
30 hidden gems from 2025 to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
2025 was an overwhelming year. Let's savor those positives in unlikely places.
www.pcgamer.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
My end-of-year Hidden Gems list is up on PC Gamer! They asked me for 15. I did 30. Somehow, Weird Little Guys and The Apocalypse were a theme.
2025 was terrible in every other regard, but the games? Good.
I also just updated my Steam Curator Page with all the stuff in the feature and a few others.
2025 was terrible in every other regard, but the games? Good.
I also just updated my Steam Curator Page with all the stuff in the feature and a few others.
In 2025 I apparently watched 5 films with Japanese character actor Ryûji Katagiri, who has no English bio but does have a detailed Cinemourge page including:
- Doberman Cop: Shot to death by Sonny Chiba
- Nuns That Bite: Stabbed by Maya Hiromi
- The Execution Game: Neck snapped by Yûsaku Matsuda
- Doberman Cop: Shot to death by Sonny Chiba
- Nuns That Bite: Stabbed by Maya Hiromi
- The Execution Game: Neck snapped by Yûsaku Matsuda
January 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
In 2025 I apparently watched 5 films with Japanese character actor Ryûji Katagiri, who has no English bio but does have a detailed Cinemourge page including:
- Doberman Cop: Shot to death by Sonny Chiba
- Nuns That Bite: Stabbed by Maya Hiromi
- The Execution Game: Neck snapped by Yûsaku Matsuda
- Doberman Cop: Shot to death by Sonny Chiba
- Nuns That Bite: Stabbed by Maya Hiromi
- The Execution Game: Neck snapped by Yûsaku Matsuda
Reposted by Wes Fenlon
This month @pcgamer.com magazine celebrates everything @fallout.bethesdastudios.com, with exclusive access to many of the people who took the post-apocalyptic RPG from cult classic to global phenomenon, including taking a look at the exciting new season of the Fallout TV show. ☢️ tinyurl.com/ypjacx6j
PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Fallout Special
Plus, Dispatch, Deadlock, Resident Evil Requiem, Pathologic 3, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, Cultic, Tides of Tomorrow, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, and much more, too
tinyurl.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
This month @pcgamer.com magazine celebrates everything @fallout.bethesdastudios.com, with exclusive access to many of the people who took the post-apocalyptic RPG from cult classic to global phenomenon, including taking a look at the exciting new season of the Fallout TV show. ☢️ tinyurl.com/ypjacx6j
Stayed up too late. Can we restart
January 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Stayed up too late. Can we restart