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Three Edgegap-Powered Demos to Play This Steam Next Fest

Steam Next Fest is back, and three of our clients are part of it. Each one has a free demo on Steam, which means you can jump into their multiplayer right now…

Overpowered Studios Game Jam: Every Submission

The window has closed, and 84 participants across 17 teams took part in the Overpowered Studios Game Jam! Over 48 hours, they built games around the theme “No Limits / Anything Goes,”…

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Overpowered Studios Game Jam Is Live!

The wait is over. The Overpowered Studios Game Jam is officially starting, and your spot is open…

Edgegap Approved for Nintendo Switch 2 Development

Edgegap is now approved for Nintendo Switch 2 development. Game server hosting, matchmaking, relays and server browser for Switch 2 multiplayer games.

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Netcode Fundamentals - Ping, Tick Rate, and Network Models Explained

Netcode is the networking code that keeps a multiplayer match consistent across machines that are milliseconds apart. It doesn't work alone. Netcode is one layer of a wider ecosystem…

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Desync Explained: Causes, Rubberbanding, and Server-Side Fixes

Two papers presented at GDC 2001 still explain most of what goes wrong in multiplayer games twenty-five years later. Yahn W. Bernier, then a developer at Valve, published…

New Case Study: Kickoff Tactics is powered by Edgegap's hybrid orchestration.

New Case Study: FIFPRO-licensed mobile hit Kickoff Tactics

How do you keep an officially FIFPro-licensed mobile football game ready for any traffic? Birch Games did it with Edgegap's hybrid orchestration: egress-free Private Fleets…

New Case Study: Bloody Bastards by Tibith Ltd

Bloody Bastards is a 40M-download mobile mega-hit, and until recently cheaters ran wild on its peer-to-peer setup. Tibith Ltd migrated to Edgegap's dedicated servers and matchmaker…

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How to Structure Game Server Builds: Branch Management Best Practices

Branch management is one of those practices that is well understood inside large studios and almost entirely undocumented everywhere else…

Triangle Factory's Forefront game server hosting and orchestration is powered by Edgegap

Case Study - Triangle Factory's Forefront

Triangle Factory migrated their 32-player VR warfare shooter Forefront to Edgegap during Early Access and launched 1.0 with the performance the shooter and its community demanded…