Steam, an online digital distribution platform from Valve, occasionally offers up free to play weekends.

Just announced on the official Steam store is a free to play weekend for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3! All you have to do is to pre load the game and be ready when the free weekend starts on Thursday, April 26th at 10am PST.

To access the free weekend, just go to your Steam account and Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer should be listed under your games.

Modern Warfare 3 is the wildly successful sequel in the Call of Duty franchise that features over 50 million games sold and a whopping 3 billion dollars in sales. In recent weeks game analysts have speculated that the franchise has indeed reached it’s peak. Partly due to competitors like Battlefield, but also due to the lagging economy.