GameSurge

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GameSurge
GameSurge (logo).png
FoundedFebruary 2004
Geographic locationUnited States
Europe
Based inWorldwide
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/subjectPublic/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).

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History

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

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:

References

  1. "GamesNET, ProGamePlayer Announce Network Merger" . Retrieved September 22, 2023.