What's on PC Gamer's desk?

I'm of the opinion that your desk space says a lot about you. Be it that you care more about function than style, or you like Hatsune Miku just a tad too much.

9 Bonkers Video Game DLCs That Completely Rewrote Expectations

When you grab downloadable content for a game, generally, you’re expecting more of the same experience: a few extra hours, some new gear, perhaps a boss fight the base game didn’t have room for. What if, instead of new outfits and a handful of fetch quests, a DLC decided to crown you the new god of madness? What if it dropped you into hell to stop a president’s wedding, or handed the entire story over to a teenager narrating her own homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign (complete with a dragon she very clearly made up five minutes ago)?

Blizzard warns World of Warcraft: Forever players it will 'very aggressively' punish anyone who buys gold with real money

A common early World of Warcraft experience was to stumble into a series of corpses lying on the ground that, when looked at from the right angle, spelled out a URL for a site where you can pay real money for in-game gold.

YouTuber Logan Paul's Latest Pokémon Scheme Was A Total Flop

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Patricia is the former editor-in-chief of Kotaku, where she spent a decade writing and editing. Prior to that, she served as the Culture Editor at Polygon, and as a reporter at The Verge. Hernandez specializes in Pokémon TCG, Nintendo, and offbeat internet culture stories.

37 Years Later, the Best 'Calvin and Hobbes' Dad Quote Is Still in a League of Its Own

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Published Sep 20, 2026, 2:05 PM EDT

He's often wrong, but Calvin's dad sometimes makes some strong points

Image: Bill Watterson/Andrews McMeel Publishing

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58 Years Later, Captain Kirk's Best Star Trek Quote Hits Harder Than Ever

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Published Sep 20, 2026, 1:57 PM EDT

Captain Kirk's speech in "Return to Tomorrow" says more about what Star Trek stands for than any other line in the original series.

Core Keeper's Riders of the Underground update drops tomorrow, and you can get a sneak peek of it right here

Core Keeper: Riders of the Underground update trailer - PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026 - YouTube

Paper co-op deckbuilder Hellcard 2 has a new demo that you can play right now

Hellcard 2 demo trailer - PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026 - YouTube

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Hellcard 2, a sequel to the original Hellcard which received 'Very Positive' reviews on Steam, is getting a new co-op demo that you can dive into right now. I'd encourage you to watch the rest of the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct first, but you could always download the demo while the show goes on.

Escape From Playtime is a co-op survival horror where you play itsy-bitsy toy animals, and its playtest is taking signups now

Escape From Playtime playtest trailer - PC Gaming Show 2026 - YouTube

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There is, you must admit, something a bit disconcerting about children's toys. The sightless eyes, the static expressions—it all combines into a hollow unpersonhood that triggers some ancient, primeval fear in the low regions of your brain. Something that also doesn't help: the unslakeable lust for murder.

Vaewolf's new story trailer takes us down a brutal path of revenge, and shows off the frenetic vampire and werewolf combat

Vaewolf story trailer - PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026 - YouTube

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It's always vampires versus werewolves. In games like Skyrim, you can be one or the other, but not both. In Twilight, you had to choose team Jacob or team Edward. Now we're all grown up, it's team Charlie and Carlisle all the way. In Vaewolf, you don't have to choose, you play an elf who's half werewolf and half vampire.