DJMax

DJMax (Korean: 디제이맥스, dijeimaegseu) (often stylised as DJMAX and also known as DJ Max in North America) is an action-rhythm video game series created by the South Korean studio Pentavision Studio Division under Neowiz Mobile. Games feature mostly experimental music and visual art from Korean DJs, artists and composers. Known South Korean experimental group Clazziquai Project has also made songs for the series. There are also a few Japanese composers who have given significant contributions to the series.

Release history

The first game in the series, DJMax Online, started in June 13, 2004 (closed alpha test) as a web based service for the Windows platform. It was only accessible from Korea, Japan and China. Since then Pentavision has developed and published seven DJMax games mostly for the PSP under the title DJMax Portable.

Pentavision released an offline DJMax game for Windows under the title DJMax Trilogy on December 25, 2008. Trilogy is a compilation of songs from three earlier games (DJMax Online, DJMax Portable and DJMax Portable 2) and it was created to replace DJMax Online which was taken offline on March 21, 2008. Pentavision worked together with a Korean company Gammac to manufacture a special DJ controller for the game which was then bundled together with the limited edition. The Controller became widely available outside the Limited Edition a few months later.