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Pentavision announced an official American release of DJ MAX game. This game will be named DJ MAX Fever and it more or less a merge of DJ MAX Portable 1 and 2.

The second release announced and tested last month is DJ MAX Technika. It is an arcade machine of DJ MAX meant for the Korean audience (for the time being). But beware it’s nothing like pressing 4-8 buttons on a PSP. It has a new gameplay system. The arcade machine consist of a screen and a big touch pad/screen. The touch pad screen is divided in half vertically. Notes of the melody of the chosen song appear on the screen. A bar goes from the left to right. As it goes and reaches the notes the player is supposed to confirm the notes by touching them on the screen.

There are three types of notes. Normal notes that just need to be pressed. Freeze notes that need to be pressed all the time till the bar does not touch them and some kind of slide notes. Those are notes that can be played by “sliding” your fingers in the direction indicated on the screen.

Now Pentavision announced even more releases. DJ MAX Portable: Clazziquai edition and DJ MAX Portable: Black Square. Black Square is a DJ MAX Portable game that follows the series. Thus new songs from not that really known artists, returning songs from DJ MAX Portable 1 and 2 and the same gameplay difficulty and setings. Clazziquai is a DJ MAX version is not targeted at hardcore gamers but for more general audience. The game is easier compared to other DJ MAXes and features more known songs (k-pop). Also Pentavision hopes that this game will be played also by female players.