BattlEye (BattlEye Innovations)

BattlEye is a commercial anti-cheat company and the developer of the BattlEye anti-cheat service used to detect and prevent cheating in online multiplayer games. The product is a combination of client-side components (including kernel-level drivers on supported platforms), server-side detection, and a ban enforcement system. It is commonly integrated by game developers and publishers to protect multiplayer integrity and is distributed alongside game executables and launchers (examples include the BattlEye client/launcher and game-specific processes such as gta5_be.exe, aces_be.exe, tslgame_be.exe).

Founded in the early 2000s, BattlEye has been adopted by a wide range of commercial titles and studios. Its technology is proprietary (not generally open source) and the company is focused on ongoing detection updates, real-time monitoring, and coordinated ban waves to remove cheaters. BattlEye is widely recognized in the games industry for supporting large-scale multiplayer titles and for...