Get Xbox Live Gold Free This Easter Weekend

21st-25th April

Even if you’ve never joined the prodigious ranks of the Xbox Live Gold subscribers, or whether you’ve simply allowed your honorable title to fall by the wayside, you can get a temporary pass to the Gold Zone this weekend. From today through Monday, free users will find their status upgraded, giving them access to the online multiplayer functionality usually reserved for their premium counterparts.
Read The World Record Article

Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch — Microsoft is asking that folks participating in the freekend help break an extremely specific Guinness world record using Kinect Sports: “The most people running a virtual 100m dash at one time.” That … that can’t be a very large number to beat, can it? Regardless, if you’d like to participate (and grab a free Avatar shirt at the same time)