Recently Steam announced that they are planning to deliver software as well as games via their online service.

To add to that Steam have just announced that their so-called Big Picture-mode for Steam will be in beta-stage in September...

Big Picture was already presented last year and should bring steam to more screams at and around your home. This can be done through your PC or Mac. You can practically use Steam on your television and scroll through menu's with your controller or mouse if you so prefer.

Greg Coomer of Valve: "There are games that work better with controllers, so these are played best in your living room. But everything (from Steam) will be present, so you don't have to miss your favorite things if you move from your bedroom to your living room."

Gabe Newell of Valve explains this mode is also very interesting for developers: "If you want to 'your hardware' run on Windows, that's possible. If you want to run it on Linux, then that's possible too."

Gabe didn't want to go into the topic of accessing Steam on consoles, he claims more information will be released on that in the near future. He also said there are no plans yet to bring Steam to the consoles.