Piranha Games

Piranha Games is a Canadian AAA game developer focused on PC and console action titles, tactical simulation shooters, and long-running live-service experiences. The studio develops games across the full production cycle, combining game design, engineering, art, narrative, audio, animation, environment creation, and real-time multiplayer systems.

Its work is closely associated with the BattleTech and MechWarrior universe. After acquiring video-game rights to the franchise, the team launched MechWarrior Online in 2013, building a free-to-play tactical mecha combat experience around 12v12 battles and ongoing live operations. The studio later expanded the franchise with MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, a premium single-player action game released in 2019 and supported with narrative expansions and downloadable content. In 2024, it released MechWarrior 5: Clans, a standalone cinematic campaign set during Operation Revival and built with Unreal Engine 5.

Development capabilities

• Full-cycle PC and console game design and development
• Premium game production, live operations, and content updates
• Licensed intellectual-property adaptation and franchise co-development
• Tactical first-person shooter and mecha-combat design
• Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 development
• In-house 3D animation, environment art, and multiplayer engineering

Before becoming a franchise-focused developer, Piranha Games undertook work-for-hire, co-development, and porting work for publishers including Electronic Arts, Fox Interactive, and 2K Games. Its earlier credits include Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, Medal of Honor: Heroes 2, EA Playground, Need for Speed: Undercover, and multiplayer-mode development for Duke Nukem Forever.

Piranha Games remains active as an autonomous operating business unit within the EG7 group. Its current work includes live-service support and new-project development alongside its established MechWarrior portfolio.