This caught my eye as I logged on to the computer in the wee hours of this AM. "Dad sells son $90 video game for more than 9000 dollars" ! Of course I had to read the story because I can't imagine what and how and why! Apparently the dad, a school teacher bought his son Guitar Hero III for the Wii as a Christmas gift. He came home unexpectedly and found his son with his two friends in the backyard smoking pot so to punish the son, mainly, and out of anger no doubt, the dad put the vi...

The other day we were dragged by our son into his favourite gaming store, Rhino. He gets like this every other month. When there's a new game that he wants he's all excited and there's nothing else that he talks about. He doesn't stop raving and coaxing and begging about it until we give up in defeat and take him to Rhino to get it. Of course the coaxing and begging part is each time we have bought him a new game we make him promise not to bother us until his birthday. Yes, sure he won'...