Microsoft offers reward for missing Xbox gamer

According to the article a boy recently ran away from home after his father took away his X-Box. A quote from the article, “His father told local media he had removed Brandon’s Xbox, built by Microsoft, after noticing changes in behavior since Brandon started playing “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” online.” The father noticed his son starting to skip school, steal money and ignore his studies. The missing boy named Brandon, age 15 has not been seen for about two weeks. This is a perfect example how (media) video games affects children. Video games came be a very powerful form of influence. Now not to say this young boy ran away strictly in result of his father taking away his game console, I don’t know that, there could be more to the story then meets the eye, but It definitely had some major contribution. Furthermore, there has been a reward place in their local newspaper. According the article the family’s Internet service provider and Child Find offered a 25,000-dollar (19,500-dollar US) reward for information leading to his return. Better yet when Microsoft heard of the news the company topped it up with another 25,000 dollars. Microsoft is the maker of the game console Xbox and game creator of “Call of Duty 4.” Apparently this young boy Brandon is an avid video gamer, it has taken over his identity and control of his life. Hopefully the family will get some information of his where abouts and be returned safely home!