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.

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Simplified Chinese is the most common language used on Steam now

https://twinfinite.net/2020/01/survey-reveals-simplified-chinese-is-the-most-used-language-on-steam/

Platinum Games enters into a partnership with Tencent.

https://twinfinite.net/2020/01/platinumgames-partnership-tencent/

An older game, Escape from Tarkov, suddenly made it into the top 3 on Twitch. How?

https://kotaku.com/escape-from-tarkov-a-2-year-old-war-game-is-suddenly-1840833132

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)

https://kotaku.com/escape-from-tarkov-developers-say-adding-playable-women-1840854949

Here’s a better article focusing on them saying questionable things

https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/8/21055397/escape-from-tarkov-explained-twitch-drops-battlestate

A Taiwanese newspaper claims we’ll see a new Switch model in 2020.

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch/2020/1/6/21051666/new-nintendo-switch-model-2020-release-date

Pokemon DLC announced! 200+ missing pokemon for $30

https://kotaku.com/pokemon-sword-and-shield-expansion-adds-over-200-existi-1840898163