Valve has today announced that their favourable PC-gaming centric Steam service has surpassed a whopping 65 million users worldwide since its launch way back in 2003. The announcement sees the service offering over 3,000 games on its platform for PC, with an account growth of 30 percent in the trailing 12-month period and the platform holder looking to take over the living room next year.

Valve is planning to launch its newly announced Steam Machines later in the year. Combined with the open-source Linux SteamOS and its very unique Steam Controller, which combines a touchscreen and no analog sticks, the publisher and developer is hoping to disrupt the marketplace.

"The main goal of Steam has always been to increase the quality of the user's experience by reducing the distance between content creators and their audience," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "As the platform grows, our job is to adapt to the changing needs of both the development and user communities. In the coming year, we plan to make perhaps our most significant collaborations with both communities through the Steam Dev Days and the Steam Machines beta."