Microsoft's been busy! First, there's the free Xbox Live weekend that runs 12 a.m. Friday PST until 12 a.m. Sunday PDT. (Don't forget to Spring Forward on Sunday!) Gamers with free Xbox Live Silver accounts can play as Gold for up to 72 hours, courtesy of Verizon. There's also a new Xbox.com interface for managing your Friends list. Then there's the newest update, which adds 360 backward compatibility for Black, Star Wars Battlefront II and World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 and improves support for Darkwatch, Fable (both releases), Forza Motorsport, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, kill.switch, Ninja Gaiden (both releases), Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, SSX 3 and World Series Baseball 2K3. Plus, there are several new Marketplace downloads:
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat demo (free), themes ($1.88 each) and various picture packs ($0.63, $0.75 and $1.50)
- Dynasty Warriors 5 picture packs ($2.50 each)
- Movie trailers for Cars, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest and Stay Alive (free)
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