1/10 - Pokemon Sword and Shield geting paid DLC?

<div>This week on around the monitor, we talk about pokemon and sexism (but not together). Join us as we break down the week's hottest gaming news.</div> <div>Topics:<br> Simplified Chinese is the most common language used on Steam now<br> <a href="https://twinfinite.net/2020/01/survey-reveals-simplified-chinese-is-the-most-used-language-on-steam/">https://twinfinite.net/2020/01/survey-reveals-simplified-chinese-is-the-most-used-language-on-steam/</a> </div> <div>Platinum Games enters into a partnership with Tencent.<br> <a href="https://twinfinite.net/2020/01/platinumgames-partnership-tencent/">https://twinfinite.net/2020/01/platinumgames-partnership-tencent/</a> </div> <div>An older game, Escape from Tarkov, suddenly made it into the top 3 on Twitch. How?<br> <a href="https://kotaku.com/escape-from-tarkov-a-2-year-old-war-game-is-suddenly-1840833132">https://kotaku.com/escape-from-tarkov-a-2-year-old-war-game-is-suddenly-1840833132</a> </div> <div>The makers of Escape from Tarkov (see above) say they won’t include playable female characters for nonsense reasons (but likely the developers are sexist - 2 years ago they said women shouldn’t be in war)<br> <a href="https://kotaku.com/escape-from-tarkov-developers-say-adding-playable-women-1840854949">https://kotaku.com/escape-from-tarkov-developers-say-adding-playable-women-1840854949</a><br> Here’s a better article focusing on them saying questionable things<br> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/8/21055397/escape-from-tarkov-explained-twitch-drops-battlestate">https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/8/21055397/escape-from-tarkov-explained-twitch-drops-battlestate</a> </div> <div>A Taiwanese newspaper claims we’ll see a new Switch model in 2020.<br> <a href="https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch/2020/1/6/21051666/new-nintendo-switch-model-2020-release-date">https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch/2020/1/6/21051666/new-nintendo-switch-model-2020-release-date</a> </div> <div>Pokemon DLC announced! 200+ missing pokemon for $30<br> <a href="https://kotaku.com/pokemon-sw