GameSurge
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| Founded | February 2004 |
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| Geographic location | United States Europe |
| Based in | Worldwide |
| Executive board | Organization |
| Website URL | www.gamesurge.net |
| Primary DNS | irc.gamesurge.net |
| Average users | 4,000 - 6,000 |
| Average channels | 4,000 - 5,000 |
| Average servers | 18 |
| Content/subject | Public/Video Games |
GameSurge is a popular Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the online multiplayer gaming community. Games commonly seen referenced on GameSurge include many first person shooters (such as Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 2) and MMORPGs (such as World of Warcraft and Guild Wars).
History
[edit]GameSurge was created in February 2004, as a result of the merger of GamesNET users and the ProGamePlayer Network, a network with common interests.[1] The merger, coincidentally, occurred during a time of legal disputes over the domain name gamesnet.net.
At present day, the user base of GameSurge is primarily North American, with a growing number of English-speaking gamers from Europe. The user base contains a large number of clans who participate in a wide variety of games. Among the more popular games on GameSurge are Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat, Urban Terror and Call of Duty.
Services
[edit]GameSurge runs a feature-rich package of services known as srvx, which was written by GameSurge's development staff from scratch in C.
GameSurge provides five user-accessible services:
- AuthServ, which provides authentication for other services on the network and allows users to use an account to maintain channel access. In the interests of providing a service directed toward gaming (and thus allowing users to easily switch clan/team/guild tags), GameSurge does not provide nickname registration.
- ChanServ, which provides facilities such as event logging and advanced user/ban management.
- HelpServ bots, which manage support requests in certain channels via a FIFO queue.
- HelpServ, in the #support channel, for general user support.
- Other HelpServ bots in miscellaneous help channels throughout the network.
- SpamServ, which provides spam protection services to channels on the network. This service was added in July 2008.
- HostServ, which provides free "titles" to users wishing to use cloaked hosts. See the GameSurge Titles page for details.
References
[edit]- ^ "GamesNET, ProGamePlayer Announce Network Merger". Retrieved September 22, 2023.
External links
[edit]- GameSurge
- srvx (network services for GameSurge)
- GameSurge Servers
- Query netsplit.de's IRC network database for GameSurge
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