PSP owners will be able to count on a fresh new music game to occupy their time and plant catchy tunes in their head in 2010. PM Studios has announced another entry in the DJ Max series, DJ Max Portable 3. Fortunately, those living in North America won’t have to import it – PM Studios will be releasing it in both the US and Japan on UMD and on the PlayStation Store.

Gameplay in DJ Max games tends to remain regular throughout the series.

If you’re looking for a fairly simple to understand and addictive import game, look no further than Korea. Yes, that’s right, Korea. Some of the easiest to play import games, for people who can’t understand the language, are music games and Korean developers and publishers are known for putting together some pretty great ones.

There’s a catch though – most of these good, Korean music games are commonly found on the PSP. You may find them in arcades, in the case of the Pump it Up series, or online, for example Audition, but one common tie among most Korean music games is that they appear on region-free PSP UMDs. Well, there is one more commonality – most PSP Korean music games also have an English language option.

So read on, and learn more about Audition, DJ Max and Pump It Up…

One of the most heavily imported PSP series, DJ Max Portable is going to be released in the US. That’s right, on November 11, 2008, DJ Max Fever is going to be released by PM Studios. It isn’t a direct translated port of DJ Max Portable or DJ Max Portable 2, but rather a kind of fusion of the two games.

DJ Max Fever is a bit like DDR or Beatmania. There’s music in the background, and you have to push PSP buttons in time with said music. The original games had 4, 5, 6 and 8-button control schemes, so DJ Max Fever will most likely also have those options. A tracklist hasn’t been announced, but it has been confirmed that the game will have over 100 songs, multiplayer, wallpapers, music videos and a jukebox mode.

Click through to watch a trailer from IGN…