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
Microsoft Orleans is a framework for building scalable, distributed applications using a virtual actor model that simplifies state management, concurrency, and fault tolerance. In this post, we’ll dive into Microsoft Orleans, exploring its core concepts such as Grains, Silos, and Cluster Membership. We’ll then bring these concepts to
The year was 2018. We had just finished shipping PUBG on PlayStation. On our lunch break we were completing the final match of our in-office Mortal Kombat tournament. The whole office erupted in cheer as Andy defeated Kirk, and began performing his fatality. A woman from our office building entered