Here at Rushdown, while our specialty is in assisting studios with multiplayer implementation in games, such as with backend services. We also have a great depth of experience working on assisting studios with their in-game UI. This post will dive into one approach we have used in the past in
If you're gaming on a PC, or really using the internet at all, there's a critical security alert you need to know about right now. A newly discovered vulnerability in Google Chrome has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild, and the U.S. government&
Hey friends! Ever needed to pull data from a REST API in your Unreal project? Whether it's player accounts, leaderboards, or third-party services, HTTP requests are becoming a core part of modern game development. In this post, we'll walk you through building a reusable HTTP client
Hello friends! Today, we’re very excited to share something cool we’ve been working on. Every year, Rushdown (the studio whose blog you’re reading!) does a 3 day hackathon - the Rush-a-thon. One of the projects made for this year’s Rush-a-thon was a Multiplayer Toolkit for the
Need to share a game server or API with friends for early testing? This guide shows you how to go from a locally running server to one accessible from anywhere. This is useful as the "napkin sketch" phase of deployment. It's perfect for early testing and
Hi friends! Here at Rushdown multiplayer games are at the center of our co-dev specialization. This is the third post in a series about how to get up and running with popular game server orchestration platforms for your multiplayer game. For part one, which walks through setting up Amazon GameLift
Introduction Here at Rushdown Studios, we specialize in building incredible multiplayer games. Employees here have contributed to, led, and collectively worked on some of the largest systems in the world including PUBG, League of Legends, Destiny 2, Among Us, and Last Epoch, to name a few. Whether you are a
If you're running online services for your video game, especially if you're using React for your web-based game services, admin dashboards, or player-facing web applications, you need to know about CVE-2025-55182. This critical vulnerability was disclosed on December 3, 2025, and it carries a CVSS score
If you're building backend services for games with Go, you're already making a solid choice for performance and scalability. But as your game grows and your dependency tree expands, how do you ensure you're not shipping known security vulnerabilities to production? This is where
Hi friends, at Rushdown we pride ourselves in staying on the cutting edge of game tech. Multiplayer games are at the center of our co-dev specialization and in this series we're aiming to share how to get up and running with popular game server orchestration platforms. In our
If you're running online services for your video game, especially if you're using ASP.NET Core and C#, you need to know about CVE-2025-55315. This critical vulnerability was disclosed on October 14, 2025, and it carries a CVSS score of 9.9, which is nearly the
TL;DR 1. Clone the repo in an AWS CloudShell session and run scripts # Clone the repo and cd into it git clone https://github.com/Rushdown-Studios/GameLiftDemo.git && cd GameLiftDemo/ # Set up the Amazon GameLift Server SDK for Golang ./scripts/setup.sh # Build the server binary and