{"id":36747,"date":"2012-04-26T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36747"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:58:42","slug":"modern-warfare-3-free-to-play-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36747-modern-warfare-3-free-to-play-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Modern Warfare 3 free-to-play this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam will be running a promo throughout this weekend allowing players who don&#8217;t own Modern Warfare 3 (approximately 4) to try out the <a title=\"Activision\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11841-Activision-Blizzard\">Activision<\/a> game everybody loves to hate.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Free Weekend&#8217; promo kicks off this evening at 7PM (South African time), and gives <a title=\"Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19930-Steam\">Steam<\/a> users access to the entire online multiplayer portion of the game.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the weekend, you&#8217;ll be kicked out of the promo like a kid getting picked up from your friends house.<\/p>\n<p>You can now pre-load the game in order to get the jump when the promo opens.<\/p>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/7820\/\">Steam<\/a> and prepare to pwn n00bz.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36693-steam-is-coming-to-linux-valve-confirms.html\">Steam is coming to Linux, Valve confirms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35065-mw3-victors-from-mweb-gamezone-clan-connection-ps3-tournament.html\">MW3 victors from Mweb GameZone Clan Connection PS3 tournament<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36498-new-call-of-duty-reveal-coming-may-1st.html\">New Call of Duty reveal coming May 1st<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Modern Warfare 3 for free this weekend on Steam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,587,231,2219,25,2485,3845,85],"class_list":["post-36747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-activision","tag-infinity-ward","tag-megarom","tag-modern-warfare-3","tag-mw3","tag-mw3-free-weekend","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36776,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36747\/revisions\/36776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}