(This article was updated on the 10th of February 2012, with more information)

Many of you will know that the steam forums were hacked on Sunday.  Valve have now released a statement saying that it looks like the intruders were able to gain access to a main steam database.

It's no use pretending this isn't a very worrying thing, but it's not as bad as it could be. While the attackers should never have been able to get any access to this information from the forums, it looks like fairly decent security procedures were followed for the steam database itself.  So:

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As the least popular public server, ne5.nervousenergy.co.uk:27020 has been changed from 24/7 Foundry

After an extensive consultation lasting at least 1 minute and taking opinions for a wide range of people who happened to be in the channel at the time, it's now the "NE 5cp maps" server.

Forum discussion

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So the European team Fortress 2 League has organised it's eleventh season of 6v6 goodness with over 300 teams signed up from all over Europe.  nevrousENERGY has three teams ready to do battle, .:ne:.BLU, in division 4b and .:ne:.GREEN with the brand new .:ne:.WHITE getting paired together in division 5h thus generating the mouth watering prospect of two of our teams going head to head in week 2 of the season, look out for a forum or new post about this to come.

We'll try to keep you all informed of how the season pans out for our teams and look out for the chance to spectate them playing as the season progresses.

The latest Microsoft Windows security updates have revoked a security certificate somewhere in the chain used to sign mumble.exe.  This is causing mumble not to start up correctly.

A new version of mumble with a new security certificate has been released.  All users of mumble should uninstall their current version (you can leave all settings files etc.) and install the fixed versions:

Mumble 1.2.3a (local mirror)

Mumble 1.2.4 experimental snapshots (local mirror)

I should add that in my experience you are fine running the snapshots; things rarely go wrong, and there are some speed improvements and bugfixes.

From the Mumble Blog.

Yup, it's that time of year again.  The stats for the public TF2 servers have been reset, to give people a clean slate for the new year.

You can view your stats at http://www.nervousenergy.co.uk/stats/

It's been a while since the last reset - how often do you think they should be done?  Comment / complain in the TF2 forum - along with any other suggestions you have.

nervousENERGY's Guild has been deployed into the SWTOR galaxy!

Assigned to Server Luka Sene

Don't forget to check your emails daily to see when you get early access.   To make it easier for people when selecting a server to play on, the guild will have a flag next to it.

 See you in the galaxy :)

Biowares Early access opens up on the 13th of December for those that have pre-ordered AND confirmed their early access codes on the SWTOR website.  The release client is reported to be around 30GB download.  nervousENERGY's Guild has been deployed into the SWTOR world and we are eagerly awaiting news as to what server we have been put on along with our individual early access start days.

IT'S AVAILABLE TO PRE-LOAD NOW!!

 See you in the galaxy :)

Our Minecraft server will be reset tonight, Friday the 25th of November at 8 pm GMT. Check the forums for all server infos and join us on mumbe!

A NEW WORLD AWAITS YOU!

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It's finally out - the propably most iconic indie game of our time with a playerbase beyond four million people and about 17 million registered users hit the digital shelves!

With its release, Minecraft's inventor Markus "Notch" Persson fulfilled his dream of creating a simple, yet extraordinary independent game for which he had quit his former job. After working full time  on his game for about a year without any salary, an ever-growing fanbase allowed him to found his own company after he made the early alpha versions open to the public, selling the first copies of his very own game. By supplying Minecraft with constant updates, the amount of fans grew rapidly - and so did the need for personal.

Notch's company Mojang, based in Stockholm, isn't just working on Minecraft, though. It also supports other indie game developers and their releases, for example the recent 2D shooter game Cobalt by Oxeye Game Studios.

Of course, Notch's newest vision, the Dungeons-and-Dragons-like online card game "Scrolls" is already in developement, too.

Minecrafts release version was awarded with best reviews and received a metascore of 97 - which puts it side to side with games like Halflife, Team Fortress 2 and even far ahead of high-end, high-budget games like Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

This latest version adds plenty of new features, items, mobs and sounds aswell as the new game mode "Hardcore". Find all the new features listed below.

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Our first Modern WareFare 3 server is up and can be found on the in game server browser (just remember to go into options and switch on the server browser).  Let's see if we can grow into this lastest release by Infinity Ward.

nervousENERGY Community Server (81.19.221.202:27014)