Founded February 2004 Based in Worldwide Website URL www.gamesurge.net | Geographic location United StatesEurope Executive board Organization Primary DNS irc.gamesurge.net | |
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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GameSurge is consistently in the top 20 IRC Networks by users currently online.
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. 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: