The original Xbox Prototype was posted online by Graeme Boyd on his twitter profile. Graeme Boyd is a Social Marketing Manager for Xbox

The world of Internet services moves at a pace and it's not surprising that older platforms don't get on fully with the latest services and APIs. In this case it's the official Twitter client for Windows Phone 8.1 that has stopped working - we did know that this might happen at the start of June, according to Twitter's own announcements. You'll remember that they ? Don't panic if you're on 8.1 though, third party clients come to the rescue.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is finally backwards compatible on Xbox One.
Infinity Ward's 2011 first-person shooter was one of the most-requested games to be added to the Xbox One backwards compatible list - a fact the people behind the Xbox UK Twitter account had some fun with last night.
To coincide with the launch, Modern Warfare 3 is on sale as part of Microsoft's Deals With Gold promotion - £12.49 down from £24.99. (Expect a 10.75GB download if you're grabbing Modern Warfare 3 from the Xbox Games Store.)

Update: The game has been confirmed for June 27, per the official Pokémon twitter account, on both iOS and Android.

Perhaps you've heard of Hole.io, a newly-released game on the App Store and Play Store. The premise is fairly simple, and similar to other .io games.
You're a hole, you slide around eating things, and you want to eat things faster than the other players. Eating more things makes you bigger, and lets you eat larger objects, almost like Katamari Damacy... but with a hole.
If the concept of a hole navigating around to swallow things up sounds familiar, that's because it's also the premise of , an indie game that's been in production for over five years.
Esposito posted a message on his Twitter today, calling out Hole.io as a clone of his own game. He notes that there are some differences - Donut County has a strong focus on story and narrative, while Hole.io focuses on the multiplayer aspect familiar to .io games.

"What would you do in a world without handshakes?" asks Kojima- and he means it.

Blogging has moved on aways since Tumblr started (social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have taken up much of the slack), but it's still going strong, with quirky and niche content producers pumping out text and visual content. And, although there's no official Tumblr client for Windows 10, there are two UWP clients that work really well. One is , but Ouga (also UWP) is bigger and more comprehensive. Get inspired, have a browse!

Valve’s move to an ‘anything goes’ approach to deciding which games will appear on Steam is a controversial one, but the company defended the decision by offering up some hard numbers that help describe the scope of the problem at a games industry talk this week in Russia.
Earlier this month, Valve announced that the company would allow any game on Steam so long as it wasn’t either illegal or “trolling.” The move came after outcry over emails the company sent to the developers of adult-themed games, primarily visual novels, telling them to either censor content or have their games pulled from Steam.
Valve might not be doing much curation these days, but we still are! Here's our list of the .
Now, Valve is explaining the subsequent decision to cease curating games almost entirely. Jan-Peter Ewert, head of Valve’s business development, gave a presentation at the Business Conference for Games Industry that laid out some of the numbers the company deals with when it comes to the sheer number of new games coming through Steam Direct.
In one slide, provided via Twitter by , Ewert shows how the number of new games on Steam has increased with each successive indie discovery program. Before Greenlight, which launched in 2012, about five games were released a week. With Greenlight, that number grew to 70 per week, and now with Steam Direct, Valve is seeing about 180 weekly game launches.
Those numbers couple with an ever-expanding Steam playerbase. Ewert said 13.5 million first-time purchasers have arrived on Steam in January through April of this year. They add up to a daunting challenge, wherever you fall on Valve’s decision about curating games.