Valve just scored a big one there, Epic Games, happily announced that they were proud to have their Widely used Unreal Engine 3 licencees to implement the Steamworks suite of service offered by Valve. Basically a win-win for both parties, Major Developer and potential games for Valve and the Steam Client and a effective, free of charge services free of charge way to lure in more developers for Epic. On the other hand things aren't looking good for Impulse and Games for Windows live

Electronic Arts' official Bad Company 2 forums and various others have been filled with complaints by disappointed Xbox 360 gamers. According to the reports, players have without any notice lost their hard earned weapons, stats and unlocks.

EA has not yet addressed this issue but apperently are aware of it and working on it. There have been no reports of this problem occuring on the Playstation 3 or PC. Only the Xbox 360 is affected.

In addition to the lost stats, users are also saying they are unable to join games. The following error is displayed "Cannot connect to EA servers."

YourEMGN will keep you updated on this issue.

We may be very, very far from the release date of Doom 4, but, not so far away from the first details of the upcoming legend. In case everyone had forgotten -  id made a promise to gamers back in QuakeCon 2009.

The annual celebration of all things Doom, Quake and everything else id has created, has been dated! We can expect to see some great new revelations and finally find out what id has been up to.

The Dates: August 12 to August 15

Place: Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

Entry will be completely free.

More info soon!

Valve's VP of marketing, Doug Lombardi shared the info with MacNN.com, however, he did not say anything about the released date.

No surprise, Valve has been hinnting towards a Mac version with the 'Get a Mac' ad styled images. Really, what can't they do?