Back on March 1st, GungHo Online Entertainment let us on a little secret: they are developing a MMORPG (oh brother, not another one), based on the old, yet famous, manga series Hokuto no Ken (Fist of The North Star). Around 3000 players are expected to join up the beta test, throw away their lives from 22nd to 26th March, and immerse themselves in this exotic world, kicking buts, grinding for XP, ninja looting, corpse camping and other constructive MMO-ish activities one has learned to take via the internets.

About Hokuto no Ken, it appeared for the first time about 24 years ago in “Weekly Shonen Jump”, and has inspired lots of alternative animes, video games and other related thinghies. I, myself, have only seen one of them, don’t really remember the title. But, boy, do I remember the carnage… Something about exploding brains and intestines, really neat.