GameSurge

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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, Day of Defeat, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 2) and MMORPGs (such as World of Warcraft and Guild Wars). GameSurge began as the merger of GamesNET and ProGamePlayer Network (PGPN), when the rights to the name GamesNET were being disputed between its original founder, Donald Wasylyna, and the current (for that time) Board of Directors of GamesNET. [1] Finally, the dispute came to an end after a U.S. Federal lawsuit was filed for the hijacking of the domain, resulting in the founding of GameSurge and reinstatement of GamesNET as Wasylyna's network. GameSurge is consistently in the top 10 IRC Networks by users currently online[2][3].

History

GameSurge began as CharlottesWeb in November 1995, changing names to ClanNet in November of 1996, and settling on GamesNET in February 1997. The network became known as GameSurge in February 2004 when it merged with the ProGamePlayer Network, driven by a legal dispute over the domain name gamesnet.net and common interests between the two networks.

GameSurge (while still known as GamesNET) originally gained popularity as a home for the North American Quakeworld Team Fortress community. This led to its popularity with players of Half-Life's Team Fortress Classic, which in turn led to it becoming the standard network for players of Counter-Strike. As the popularity of Counter-Strike has grown, so has the user base of GameSurge [4].

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: Source, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and Call of Duty.

Services

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 four user-accessible services:

• AuthServ, which provides authentication for other services on the network and allows users to use an account that allows them 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 nick 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.
  • RegServ, in the #registration channel, for the specific purpose of channel registration.
  • Other HelpServ bots in miscellaneous help channels throughout the network.
• HostServ, which provides free "titles" to users wishing to use cloaked hosts. See the GameSurge Titles page for details.

Official channels

• #GameSurge - Main network discussion channel
• #GameSurgeRadio - Network radio channel
• Help Channels
  • #help - General help channel
  • #support - Staff assistance channel
  • #registration - Channel registration channel
  • #script - mIRC scripting help channel

External links

• GameSurge