According to Reuters, Tencent is changing up its development strategy. Rather than devote its time into making mobile games for "foreign franchises," it'll focus on its own, original titles.Sources told the outlet "hundreds" of staff that spent years working on Assassin's Creed Jade for Ubisoft have now been transferred to Tencent's just-launched DreamStar. As a result, Jade is now expected to launch in 2025.Previously, Tencent was making phone spinoffs for Elden Ring and Nier. The latter was eventually scrapped, in part because it wanted to pay 10 percent in licensing fees to Square Enix rather than the standard 15-20 percent.In the past year, the company has faced several "setbacks" with its licensed lineup. Along with shuttering Apex Legends …

The Epic Games Store is heading to iOS and Android so developers can choose how to bring their games to those platforms.The company broke the news during its annual State of Unreal showcase at GDC 2024, and in a follow-up interview told Game Developer the work-in-progress storefront will allow it to once again bring Fortnite to mobile platforms (on its own terms) while also "giving developers a choice" about how they ship."We make multiple games that are really good on mobile. Fortnite is fantastic on mobile. The minute we get the opportunity to do so, we want to [launch it]," said Epic EVP Saxs Persson. "We want to give developers a choice. Fundamentally we believe that every platform should be an open platform and should allow open competition."The Epic Game…