With GDC fully underway, Valve started off the event by announcing their plans to bring Steam to your television, including controller support and a new nevigation designed to work around your television.
Valve's Doug Lombardi said: "Our partners and customers have asked us to make Steam available in more places. With the introduction of Steam on the Mac, and soon in Portal 2 on the PS3T, we've done just that."
"With Big Picture mode, gaming opportunities for Steam partners and customers become possible via PCs and Macs on any TV or computer display in the house."
The company said they would also be sharing statistics with partners on Steam Microtransactions which they gathered during their trial with Team Fortress 2.
"We've come to understand what type of content sells well in TF2′s in-game store, and the various price points at which players value this content," said Robin Walker, game designer at Valve.
"Our players are continually teaching us what works and what doesn't. Much of this feedback can be generalized to other titles on Steam, so we're looking forward to sharing what we've learned with partners at GDC. We're also interested in seeing partners get up and running with their own in-game economies, so they can collect game-specific data to inform their design decisions."
No release date on when we can expect to see the Steam service on our TV's, the company's latest game, Portal 2, releases this April.
