According to the September 2006 issue of Wired magazine, 8-year-old Victor De Leon is a pro gamer:

In the Halo universe, De Leon is known as Lil Poison, one of the world's youngest pro gamers. At the age of five, while many of his peers were still eating paste, the pixel prodigy was smoking competitors at small gaming events hosted by his father. It wasn't long before Major League Gaming – one of the premier videogame organizations – added Poison to its roster. And last year, the video­game site 1Up inked a sponsorship deal with the 4-foot fragger. When he's not busy with SpongeBob and multiplication tables, De Leon plays up to six hours a day on Xbox Live.

My almost seven-year-old son is into Unreal Tournament 2004, and would probably play for 6 hours a day, too, if I let him. Maybe it's time to discuss with him his long term career plans and see if professional video gamer is in his future? Perhaps if he started playing full time now, within a year or so he could be the poster boy for the new release of Unreal Tournament 2007? Obviously not any more than I want him practicing basketball, tennis, or soccer for 6 hours a day. Kids need to be more well-rounded than that.

But I do wonder if I'm biased toward the arts and sciences? As an academic, would I let a seven-year-old child prodigy practice piano as much, work on his painting, start acting full time if he showed talent, or work all day long on advanced level mathematics if he showed genius level potential? Maybe. Is it a cultural bias? Perhaps.