GameSurge restructuring announcement - 03/31/2009 -
Posted by Entrope
MILPITAS, CA -- The GameSurge Board of Directors has released the
following announcement:
In today's difficult economy, GameSurge has been coping with
declining revenues and rising costs due to increasing access
tariffs to network tubes. In addition to cutting back on planned
expansion, the network is taking the following cost-saving
actions, effective immediately:
Closing down our Antarctic server farm (Penguin1.UN.AA.GameSurge.net through Penguin5.UN.AA.GameSurge.net). The cost savings due to easy cooling is now outweighed by network data bottlenecks and the constant risk of computer racks "calving" off into the ocean.
The Board of Directors has agreed to serve for the 2009 calendar year with no direct or deferred compensation. In addition, other forms of executive compensation have been scaled down.
All support agents will receive a 20% reduction in salary. Selected agents will be offered early retirement packages, with up to 8 months of pay as a separation bonus.
Conformant ASCII characters will be sent using only 7 active bits, allowing up to 12.5% reduction in on-bit network bandwidth use compared to normal 8-bit (octet) traffic.
We are continuing to examine our ongoing operations for
additional efficiencies and expect to contact Federal regulators
to fully explore restructuring and ongoing liquidity options
relating to current industrial programs.
DISCLAIMER: This news release includes certain forward-looking
statements that, as of the date of release, are believed to be
true -- from a certain point of view. These statements involve
known and unknown risks, unknown and known unknowns,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual
results, performance or achievements to differ materially from
the anticipated results. Any investment decisions should be made
only after seeking qualified advice.
Anniversary Winners: Round 1 - 03/09/2009 -
Posted by pb
After a lot of good times had by all, our contest drew to a close last weekend. It's taken some time to get everything ready, but we're finally announcing winners for the drawing.
Judging on the 2nd contest has started, and those winners will be posted when we're done.
For the first round, the lucky 5, and what they've won, are:
1st Place: xetrov_
2nd Place: Murkrow
3rd Place: rootwiler, agentx24, and Psycho
Congrats to all the random drawing winners, I'll be contacting you over the next couple days via email.
GameSurge Turns 5! - 02/17/2009 -
Posted by pb
GameSurge is proud to bring you some awesome news: We just turned 5! But unlike your birthday (we hope, anyway), instead of you giving US presents, well, we're giving
YOU some! Sponsored by
Valve Software and
Razer no less!
We're having a little party on IRC in
#5thAnniversary, where we're doing random giveaways. The real bread and butter, however is a major pair of contests where you can win a ton of
Left4Dead swag or some
Razer gear. You can't go wrong no matter what! Check out our
Contest Details page for more information!
ClanShells delinked - 02/01/2009 -
Posted by pb
ClanShells.DE.EU.GameSurge.net has decided to part company with us this week. I'd personally like to thank crazyiven, its admin, for the past 4.5 years of service to the network he's given. They'll both be missed. We've pointed their former DNS name at the EU server pool for the time being, but if you were using their server specifically to connect, you probably want to update your IRC client configuration.
Welcome TAL.DE - 01/28/2009 -
Posted by ThiefMaster
GameSurge is pleased to announce the new EU server TAL.DE.EU.GameSurge.net which has successfully passed the testlink and has been added to the network. The server is administered by Izlots.
New Chat Widget - 11/26/2008 -
Posted by ThiefMaster
Since today we have something new for those of you who do not use a real IRC client or like to connect to GameSurge from school or work:
The mibbit IRC widget which replaces the Java applet on
http://www.gamesurge.net/chat allows you to connect to GameSurge without using any ports but the regular http port (80) which is open almost everywhere.
Just in case you prefer the Java applet, it is still available at
http://www.gamesurge.net/javachat.
For those who want to add the widget to their website: either you can link the one on the GameSurge site and pass channels via the URL (/chat/CHANNELNAME; e.g. /chat/gamesurge for #gamesurge or /chat/CHANNELNAME/DEFAULTNICKNAME) or you can
embed the mibbit widget on your site. In this case you should set the server to
webirc.gamesurge.net:6007 so people connect with their real IP (otherwise they might get glined for excessive connections).
Welcome Thunder.DE - 10/23/2008 -
Posted by ThiefMaster
GameSurge is pleased to announce the new EU server Thunder.DE.EU.GameSurge.net which has successfully passed the testlink and has been added to the network. The server is administered by SpeCon.
New Service Offering: SpamServ - 07/04/2008 -
Posted by Milon
We are pleased to announce a new service offering. Our SpamServ module has been rolled into srvx (GameSurge channel management) core. It offers many new features to reduce spam and unwanted channel communication. SpamServ offers alot of customization and flexibility for channel owners.
I would like to thank feigling and Entrope for their work on it. feigling took the lead on the project and with substantial testing and rework, we are pleased to offer it to our community.
Channel owners can request a SpamServ by typing '/msg SpamServ request #channel'. Type '/msg SpamServ help' for a list of commands. Please read
SpamServ Instructions for a full list of features.
We hope you enjoy it!
DNS Update - 06/23/2008 -
Posted by Milon
We had a DNS outage today. We apologize for the inconvenience. We made some updates to our master/slave DNS servers and things are back to normal.
We appreciate your support.
Service Outage - 05/26/2008 -
Posted by crad
Update: This issue has been resolved as of 9:00 am PST. Thank you all for your patience.
Today at approximately 12:20 am PST our primary data center which is responsible for our services and west coast hub had a power event. We have been working to restore full services and have staff on site in the data center repairing hardware which failed upon restart. We appreciate your patience and shall have full services restored shortly.
