Chinese giant Tencent leads Series A funding in free-to-play developer Artillery

It looks like the Palo Alto-based game development house, Artillery, may have something interesting going on with its code-named Atlas free-to-play real-time strategy project. At least, something interesting enough to attract some serious funding from one of the biggest gaming and investing firms in the world.

The huge Chinese Internet and investment holdings company Tencent has spearheaded Series A funding into Artillery, which the developer is using to get its real-time strategy project off the ground (no specific dollar amount was given). The other investors joining Tencent in this round of investment include First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Signia Ventures, General Catalyst, Charlie Cheever, Crunchfund, and several unnamed angel investors.