Steam – in its ever-enduring awesome – is hosting a free weekend for Modern Warfare 3.

This is pretty exciting news for us.

For a number of logistical reasons and one financial reason (not enough financial, basically) , we haven’t yet been able to pick up Modern Warfare 3 for the LAN. Don’t get us wrong, we’d very much like to, but the stars are all wonky and misaligned for the time being. The cool side of some of that unfortunate circumstance is actually what Brian’s working on for how we store games on the PCs. Once he’s got that all figured out, we’re probably going to FLIP OUT and GO NUTS and install a whole mess of free-to-play games as well as other titles of interest that we’re able to afford/acquire.

(Also, what he’s doing is pretty cool, and – if he’s up to it – there’ll be a post explaining the sheer amazing of his and Anna’s hard work.)

All of that stuff aside, even during this storage solution transitionary period there’s enough space on more than half of the PCs for us to install MW3 and take advantage of this upcoming free weekend. We know that some of you have really been wanting to try it out or simply play it here at Game On!, and it bums us out that we haven’t yet been able to provide.

So, for this weekend at least, Modern Warfare 3 will be available for play in the LAN (hours still cost, of course). Hopefully we’ll learn a few technical/logistic tidbits to assuage our concerns in those departments, and really put us into gear for getting MW3 in here permanently as soon as possible.

(For those of you interested in Battlefield 3, rest assured we’re looking into that as well.)

Keep your eyes peeled to our Facebook and Twitter (and this post), because we might couple a promotion for free time with this whole shebang.

Love always,
Game On!