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SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – 12/07/09) – Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR – News ), a global leader in innovative technologies for wireless and wired communications, today announced that Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter leverages the high performance of the industry’s most widely adopted 11n technology, Atheros XSPAN, to deliver an enhanced wireless experience

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Atheros XSPAN(R) Technology Unleashes the Power of 11n in Microsoft’s New Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

PC version held back to today. Valve has said that the Left 4 Dead 2 demo is now available to those who pre-ordered the game on Xbox 360, and that the PC version will follow today via Steam. Those of you without pre-orders can access the demo on 3rd November if you’re a PC gamer or Xbox Live Gold subscriber, or on 10th November if you’re an Xbox Live Silver sub

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News: Left 4 Dead 2 pre-order demo on Live (Eurogamer)

Something for “longer term”, says Microsoft. Microsoft reckons we’ll be waiting a while before streaming services like Gaikai and OnLive are the norm.

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News: Xbox not worried about Gaikai, OnLive (Eurogamer)

Costs will rise in the future – says exec Speaking online this week with Bonus Round , Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has said that Xbox Live won’t be as cheap in the future. Indeed, the industry soothsayer says that it will one day cost from “50 to a 100 bucks”, probably within the next year or two.

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Pachter predicts pricey Xbox Live (Ferrago)

PC gamers vs. console gamers. There’s this assumption that PC gamers are capable of playing more complex games than console gamers

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* Sacred 2, XBox 360 * (OSNews)