GameSurge is a popular Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the Internet gaming community. This is for multi-player games played over the Internet, including MMORPGs (Massively Multi-play Online RolePlaying Games) such as EverQuest.

Originally known as GamesNET before merging with the ProGamePlayer Network to form GameSurge. The merge was due to a legal dispute over the domain name gamesnet.net and common interests between the two networks.

It runs a package of services known as srvx, which were written by GameSurge's development staff from scratch in C.

srvx includes three user-accessible services:

• NickServ, which is also known as AuthServ as the GameSurge policy forbids users to "own" a specific nick, and provides authentication for the other services.
• ChanServ, which provides facilities such as event logging and advanced user/ban management.
• HelpServ bots, which manage support requests in certain channels, which are dealt with as a FIFO queue.
  • HelpServ, in the #support channel, for general user support.
  • RegServ, in the #registration channel, for the specific purpose of channel registration.

GameSurge (while still known as GamesNET) originally gained popularity as a home for the North American Quake Team Fortress community. This is turn led to its popularity with players of Half-Life's Team Fortress Classic, which in turn led to it being the standard network for players of Counter-Strike. As Counter-Strike's player base, and therefore clan community swelled, so did GameSurge's user base. During Counter-Strike's beta days, there were "release parties" for new versions, in which so many users would join the channel #counter-strike to participate that the number of simultaneous users on the network would double on those days, often causing massive netsplits and other problems due to the network not being able to handle the load.

External links

• GameSurge
• srvx IRC Services