Some pretty cool gaming April Fool's things this year, I especially like the new Sonic game Sega released on Steam, The Murder of Sonic visual novel, and the Overwatch 2 April Fool's Day event, which presents itself as an early leaked internal build of the next character balance patch, which has everything from giant googly eyes on all characters, random new sound effects for Ultimate abilities such as Moira yelling Kamehameha when she unleashed her beam ultimate and Genji yelling "ching, ching, ching" whenever he slashes his sword during his ultimate, and last all of the characters have been made overpowered in some way or fashion (Rammatra is stuck in constant assault form but can also put down his shield unlike normal assault form, Winston's bubble shield moves with him, Orisa's helicopter blade allows her to fly short distances, Junkrat drops his death grenades beneath him whenever he launches himself into the air with his mines, Mercy's gun has been given more projectile speed and ammo, Zenyatta's kick sends him flying forward allowing him to escape faster or knock people off of cliffs easier, Brigette's rocket flail now pulls her forward giving her better ability to close gap on enemies or allowing her to escape sticky situations easier, Moira's damage orb can be stopped on enemies damaging them constantly, Symmetra's turrets now deal damage while moving through the air and take more damage to destroy while in the air, Wrecking Ball's gun deals more damage and his minefield now homes in on enemies caught inside of it, those are just the overpowered balance changes I have noticed so far).

Buy Asobo MS.

Look at Spade getting into the April Fools Day spirit

Capcom is the greatest Japanese video game company

I'm sure they have or had conversation with them to this effects. Asobo is probably not interested. 

Better MS keep a great relation with them then push on them. 

Anyway I'm thinking, with the Bethesda and ABK deals MS also inserted in the minds of all entity looking to sell or receiving an offer to first give them a call. 

Asobo either isn't interested or fattening themselves up real good to sell later.

Why sell now when Microsoft has a 10 year Flight sim contract with them, they have financial stability and in the meantime they put out bangers like Plague Tale, build the studio up, build their internal engine up, make bigger IPs and then if they do choose to sell they will do so with an offer way more than what would have been offered to them years ago.

I'd say there's a good chance that Linkedin is talking about a Microsoft project too.

I did not knew Asobo have been making it's own engine. Innocence was made with EU 4 and so I defaulted to thinking it was the same or EU 5 for Requiem, but not it's a custom proprietary engine. 

Do we know what push them to do so? Was it a financial decision, specific requirement or else.

IIRC Both Innocence and Requiem are Asobo's in-house engine.

Engine:Zouna - PCGamingWiki PCGW

Flight Simulator is also Asobo's engine.

CAT is on the right side here. Glad that they are taking the decision that makes sense.

Where are those purse owner games that Xbox owners have been demanding for years?

Asobo Studio Is Reportedly Prototyping A Racing Game For Xbox

"Shpeshal Nick claimed that he’s heard about Asobo Studio working on an early prototype for a new racing game for Xbox that may actually be a kart racer." - September 2022.

Hmm, a coincidence? Starting with a Technical Director in January 2021 would certainly match up to 2022 being "early prototype" stages.

Don't know why it would have a notable Cloud component though.