Search results for Maruyama (13 results)
Under Defeat's Maruyama on shmup stagnation
G.Rev's Under Defeat was already part of a "new generation" of shooters when it was released in arcades in 2005 and on Dreamcast in 2006 – at least, compared with what most people would think of as the "golden age" for the genre in the late '8...
Under Defeat HD drops price to $30, retail version full of extras
Under Defeat, a vertical shooter by G.Rev, was originally an arcade game, and then it saw home release on the Dreamcast in Japan – in 2006, long after the Dreamcast's natural lifespan had ended. Under Defeat returns this fall in high definiti...
HD-DVD won't be used for games on Xbox 360?
Microsoft Japan's Yoshihiro Maruyama has said that an HD-DVD Xbox 360 add-on is possible, "but it won't have any relationship to gaming." Say what? Maruyama has stated (via Xbox Famitsu) that if the HD-DVD format was introduced onto the Xbox 360, i...
New Xbox Japan GM appointed
Takashi Sensui has replaced Yoshihiro Maruyama as general manager of the Xbox Division for Microsoft Japan. Was someone not doing his job? Sensui has been promoted from his position as director of the marketing department and game content group, whil...
Japanese Xbox manager replaced
In a sign that Microsoft isn't taking the poor sales of the Xbox 360 in Japan sitting down, Yoshihiro Maruyama is being replaced as general manager of the Xbox Division for Microsoft Japan by Takashi Sensui. Sensui was director of the marketing depar...
Capcom uses real lawyer to promote fake one
There's nothing quite like bowing down to the almighty dollar (or in this case, almighty yen), is there? Clearly nothing compares, as evidenced in the embedded video past the post break where real-life Japanese lawyer Kazuya Maruyama helps promote G...
Microsoft hope to hit a million sales in Japan
IGN report on an interview with Xbox's Japanese business manager, Yoshihiro Maruyama, in which he hopes that the Xbox 360 will sell a million consoles by summer 2006. The console is launched in Japan next week, on the 10th, so that's not very long, e...
"We expect to win" next-gen battle in Japan
Guess who? Sony? Nope. Nintendo? Nah. Microsoft?! You got it. It's no secret that the Japanese market has not been kind to Microsoft's Xbox. So excuse us for asking, but what are they smoking? Well for one, Microsoft plans to "enter the Japanese m...
Mystery building in Japan revealed as Xbox 360 Lounge
Not too long ago, we brought you news of a mystery building going up in Japan. It was obviously promoting the Xbox 360 on Sony and Nintendo's home turf, but we couldn't definitely ascertain its purpose… until now. The Xbox 360 Lo...
Joystiq @ TGS: Tokyo Game Show may go the way of E3 - industry only
In casual remarks prior to the start of our interview with him, Xbox Japan head and chairman of the CESA events committee chairman Yoshihiro Maruyama noted that the Tokyo Game Show has diminished in relative size in recent years. Even though the nu...
Xbox 360 guru to give lecture at Japanese college
Microsoft has been going a tad overboard in trying to persuade the Japanese gamer to buy its console – the reaction to the original Xbox has been rather tepid. For the Xbox 360, however, Microsoft has done everything in its power to reverse t...
Gyakuten Saiban 4 goes on sale, offers up crime scene
Now why can't we get game displays like this in the United States? This is how you market a game! Anyway, the sale of Gyakuten Saiban 4, which is comprised of 4 episodes of the tried-and-true investigation and courtroom segments of the previous thre...
Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition marches to PS3 and PSN this fall
Under Defeat is the latest game to get the HD treatment, re-launching courtesy of Rising Star Games, both as a retail PS3 game and PSN download, this fall for $39.99. Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition not only sports the usual visual polish that comes...
