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An abstract news: A Japanese adult manga artist named Shoji Koji was arrested for trying to secretly photograph the skirt of a 15-year-old junior girl in a game hall.
"Soccer Player" has been announced to be over
The 43-year-old manga "Soccer Player" series announced that it will end in early April, and the author Yoichi Takahashi said that due to his physical health, he will also retire, but will continue to make a script so that the series has a planned ending in his mind.
Xiaomao's comment: I didn't expect it, I have been serializing all the time. Although "Football Player" is running rampant regardless of the plot and painting style, it has not grown in painting skills after more than 40 years of serialization. But in the 80s, when Japanese football was still defeated by the Chinese, this work really inspired the next generation.
The League of Legends MSI champion will go straight to the S Tournament
Riot released its 2024 outlook for League of Legends esports, announcing changes to its global tournament system. Riot said they want to continue to enhance the confrontation of the Mid-Season Championship and bring the Mid-Season Championship and the World Championship closer together.
In the S14 season, there will only be 3 S spots in each of the four major regions of LPL, LLK, LEC and LCS. At the same time, the MSI champion will directly advance to the S Tournament, which will not occupy the basic seat of their region, and the next best region will also receive an additional S Tournament spot.
Taking last year's MSI as an example, JDG will directly qualify for the S competition, and the remaining teams in the LPL will compete for the other 3 places. The second-best LCK region has four spots.
MSI 2024 will be held in Chengdu, China, May 1-19. The S Tournament will take place from September 25 to November 2, with Berlin, Germany hosting the Play-In and Swiss rounds, before heading to Paris, France for the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Xiaomao Comment: It should have been like this 800 years ago, and since the beginning of MSI, I can't understand why I didn't let the MSI champion advance directly to the S competition. Not only does the MSI champion have a low prize money and no skin, but the winning team is bound to be weakened by Riot designers in the second half of the year, year after year. For teams aiming to win the S crown, it can be said that the MSI championship is a negative effect.
However, the current system is still not good for the championship region, and the remaining teams can only roll up 3 places, and the team in the second place division has 4 places to compete for, which is still very stupid.
Baldur's Gate 3 brings a fan's sick father into the game
In 2020, a user named Solfalia on the Larian forums shared a post thanking Larian Studios for launching an Early Access version of Baldur's Gate 3 in the fall, allowing him to spend one last Christmas adventure with his Alzheimer's father.
Three years later, Baldur's Gate 3 was officially released, and Solfalia returned to the forums to thank the development team again after an anonymous Larian screenwriter had offered to pay homage to his father, and Solfalia later discovered that an NPC who resembled his father, Golbraith, had been added to the game.
This NPC is a high-profile retired Mind Flayer hunter who has devoted the rest of his life to writing, eager to pass on his valuable experience to future generations. Among the many items in the cellar was a stack of letters between him and his son.
Xiaomao commented: The next time you encounter this NPC, don't mess around......
MSI announces the launch of gaming handhelds
MSI has announced that it will launch its own handheld gaming console, which will be officially unveiled at CES 2024 (January 9 to January 12). After the news was officially announced, some overseas bloggers soon exposed the promotional picture of the handheld, but the truth is unknown.
Xiaomao commented: The win handheld and the Switch are actually not competitors on the same track. Now that the Windows system is also developing in the direction of portability, there should be a lot of room for growth in the demand for Win handhelds.
Game Recommendation
Weird West is giving away free for PS Plus members, and I just participated in the Steam Winter Sale.
Characterised by its graphic style and narrative structure, it takes place in the American West, where a loved one is murdered and a cowboy returns to his old business in search of justice. However, at the same time, it is under the influence of mysterious demons, and under the yellow sand in the sky, people perform strange and terrifying rituals. The game's heavily shadowed comic style renders the atmosphere well.
There are 5 protagonists in "Wild West", and they experience the other side of the story from different perspectives, and in the end, everything will be connected. The combat gameplay of the game is stealth + top-down shooting, but players generally feedback that the operation experience is not good, and it is a work with obvious advantages and disadvantages.
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