1/10 - Pokemon Sword and Shield geting paid DLC?
Around the Monitor
English - January 10, 2020 15:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLeisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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.
Topics:
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