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Technical minds

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Human collaboration

Your companion to building the next generation of successful games.

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Companion Group is a fully remote team of senior multiplayer specialists.

Our staff embed into studios to deliver both backend and gameplay features, trusted by some of the largest AAA games on the planet.

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Online Services and integration

From off-the-shelf GBaaS to fully bespoke backends, we design, develop, and integrate the online services your game depends on.

Multiplayer development

We specialise in Unreal Engine networking but also understand key networking fundamentals like client prediction and entity interpolation, enabling us to work with custom network stacks.

Gameplay programming

We embed with your teams to build and refine gameplay systems and tools, including 3Cs, GAS, AI, PCG, UI,and performance optimisation for live service games.

Cloud and Automation

We handle cloud and bare‑metal infrastructure end to end, from cloud architecture and hybrid setups to build automation, dev tooling, CI/CD, and game server fleets.

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CO_DEVELOPMENT

Companion Group integrates directly into your team

We work primarily in the EU and Americas, and specialize in both backend and in-engine work.

Our staff are able to augment your team for additional velocity, or take ownership of end-to-end feature design and delivery

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Case Studies

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Gears of War: E-Day is the upcoming game from The Coalition, a flagship first-party studio within Xbox Game Studios, home to one of gaming's most well-known and loved series: Gears of War.

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