If you're building online services for your game using Go, C#, or C++, you've probably dealt with PostgreSQL connection management. Opening a new database connection for every request is slow and resource-intensive. The typical solution is writing application-level connection pooling code, but there'
At Rushdown, we’re no strangers to both using and writing developer tooling to help build game features. This post will cover an approach to writing developer tooling using an immediate mode GUI technique in Unreal Engine. Specifically, we will be approaching this without requiring adding third party library dependencies
Hello world! This blog post is a bit different than our usual engineering ones. This time it’s the Creative team at Rushdown Studios doing the writing and we’re happy to present what we’ve been working on for the past few months. The visual elements of the brand
Overview Here at Rushdown Studios, multiplayer games are the center of our co-dev specialization. When building a multiplayer game, many studios also need supporting tooling. This can include things like admin dashboards, moderation tooling, and more. More often that not, these tools will be built as web applications to
On April 29, 2026, Theori's Xint Code team disclosed Copy Fail which is a Linux kernel logic bug that turns any unprivileged local user into root with a 732-byte Python script. The same script works on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, and SUSE, and every distro shipped since
Here at Rushdown, we have a great depth of experience working on assisting studios with their in-game UI. This post will dive into an approach we have used in developing UI for partner studios: UMG Viewmodel. Introduction You’ve created some new fancy UI for your Unreal Engine game.
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
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
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
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