According to 1UP, Saturday, April 1st
will mark the first free weekend of Xbox Live Gold play for currently Silver 360 owners.While the news sounds suspiciously like an April Fools' Day trick, free Live weekends were something that Microsoft touted early on to entice us to jump on the paid bandwagon.
If MS goes through with the promotion, noncommittal gamers will have 72 hours to check out the service and see what the Gold-level fuss is all about. No further free weekends have apparently been announced.
[Update: Oh, and just in case you folks were wondering why Verizon's logo was in the image above, they're sponsoring the free weekend. Also, we were looking at 2005 instead of 2006 for that day, so thanks for the correction, John! The latest update to this story's been posted here.]
