I gave the X-Box as a gift to a friend thinking he needed to blow off some steam by blowing things up on a fun ban-bang, shoot-em-up sort of game. The X-Box TV commercials seemed sort of cool. He loved it, until last week. Apparently with some of the Network Gaming features out there, you can play somebody else out there on many games.

His 11 year old son started out on that road and bought a network game. But apparently, lurkers, predators and just plain sexually perverted people out there now have one more way to reach your kids with sexually suggestive names. And many games do not allow you to delete or block some of these offensive gamers out there. You have to CALL Microsoft and report them.

Suffice it to say, my friend has taken the X-box and put it on eBay and has now bought a Wii console instead.

- Bartman