Source: Times Online
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AT HOME with his family and friends, Victor De Leon appears to be an ordinary eight-year-old who loves playing with Cortana, his hamster, and cannot wait to see what Santa will bring him.
Yet something happens to Victor when he perches in front of a television screen with his hands wrapped around a computer game console. He turns into Lil Poison, master of a virtual universe of acrobatic combat, Ninja-like savagery and Xbox battles to the death.
The transformation of a shy New York schoolboy into a merchant of Microsoft mayhem has not only shaken up the increasingly high-stakes world of international computer gaming; it has also turned Victor into one of the best known eight-year-olds in America.
