Following in Verizon’s footsteps, and hopefully not fucking it up as much, is the Discovery Channel. They’ve decided to give away 2 million Microsoft Points to coincide with the release of the new maps for Gears of War.

The points will be given away January 13th and 14th (although I expect it to only last about 20 minutes when the points are put up) at http://www.readyaimfire.com/. The site is only going to active those two days, so act fast and log on to find out how to get the points.

I’m hoping they have a way to find the first 4000 people to play a ranked match on Gears of War, and email each of them (based on the Passport email on file with their gamertag) a code for free 500 Microsoft points. But that would make sense, and as we’ve seen with the last two points giveaways, anything that makes sense will promptly be discarded.