GamePhilos raises $8M for mobile strategy game Age of Dino

GamePhilos announced today that it has raised $8 million in its seed funding round, which the new studio plans to put towards a new free-to-play mobile/PC strategy game called Age of Dino. Xterio Ltd contributed to the funding, and the game will be built on the Xterio Foundation platform. It will feature web3 integrations such as NFT ownership and an in-game economy.

The studio’s founding staff includes former members of Netease, Zynga, FunPlus, ByteDance. According to GamePhilos, Age of Dino is about warring factions of dinosaurs, with real-time battles and multiplayer, as well as in-game trading systems and alliance-building methods. The studio built the game on the FunPlus engine, a staple for strategy games. Also, Imagendary Studios is providing art support for its upcoming NFTs.