Editing GameSurge

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{{Infobox IRC network
| name             = GameSurge
| image            = [[File:GameSurge (logo).png]]
| founded_on       = February 2004
| located_in       = United States<br />Europe
| based_in         = Worldwide
| executive_board  = [http://www.gamesurge.net/organization/ Organization]
| website_url      = [http://www.gamesurge.net/ www.gamesurge.net]
| primary_dns      = [irc://irc.gamesurge.net irc.gamesurge.net]
| average_users    = {{IRC NQNS link|GameSurge|4,000 - 6,000}}
| average_channels = {{IRC NQNS link|GameSurge|4,000 - 5,000}}
| average_servers  = {{IRC NQNS link|GameSurge|18}}
| main_content     = Public/[[Video Games]]
}}

'''GameSurge''' is a popular [[Internet Relay Chat]] network devoted to the [[Multiplayer video game|online multiplayer gaming]] community.  Games commonly seen referenced on GameSurge include many [[First-person shooter|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 [[MMORPG]]s (such as [[World of Warcraft]] and [[Guild Wars]]).

==History==
GameSurge was created in February 2004, as a result of the merger of [[Game Network|GamesNET]] users and the ProGamePlayer Network, a network with common interests.<ref name="pgpn_merger">{{Cite web|url=http://www.irc101.org/news.php?id=370|title=GamesNET, ProGamePlayer Announce Network Merger|accessdate=22 September 2023}}</ref> 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 [[Clan (computer gaming)|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 [[Internet Relay Chat services|services]] known as ''srvx'', which was written by GameSurge's development staff from scratch in [[C (programming language)|C]].

GameSurge provides five user-accessible services:
* ''AuthServ'', which provides authentication for other services on the network and allows users to use an [[User (computing)|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 (computing and electronics)|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 {{Start date|2008|7}}.
* ''HostServ'', which provides free "titles" to users wishing to use cloaked hosts.  See the [http://www.gamesurge.net/titles GameSurge Titles] page for details.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.gamesurge.net/ GameSurge]
* [http://www.srvx.net srvx] (network services for GameSurge)
* [http://www.gamesurge.net/servers/ GameSurge Servers]
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