The Video Game age- Kids and their video games

http://steve-olson.com/are-video-games-bad-for-kids-a-personal-story/
The child of the parent writing the artical obsessed over many things that were GOOD, but when he got a video game, he obsessed over that, and thats something thats not good to obsess over.
Today it seems like every kid will throw a fit if they don't get the new "halo" game or whatever else. And their parents give it to them, just get it for them, almost no resistence at all. But if a parent were to get the game for them the kid will spend more time playing the game then doing homework, they won't even pay attention to doing the homework well, they'll do the homework as fast as they can, make many mistakes just so they can play their game. so their grades will go down, plus they won't do chores or go to bed when they're supposed to because they're caught up in the game. so what do you do? get them a game, but limit the time they're alloweed to use it. thats MY stance!!!