Shiver Entertainment unveils Beasts vs. Bots real-time strategy mobile game

Shiver Entertainment, a mobile game studio headed by former Zynga executive John Schappert, is unveiling a real-time strategy mobile game called Beasts vs. Bots today.

Beast vs. Bots is a competitive game that enables fast-paced, synchronous player versus player combat in a war between intelligent insect-like robots and monstrous subterranean beasts. It’s the latest move to build a great game for the $30 billion mobile gaming market.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.