Researchers somehow found volunteers to willing accept electrical shocks while playing video games. Ooook. The study's mostly good news though: Small zaps to the brain might help Parkinson's patients.

For $30, console mod company XCM will sell you this Blue Blood Xbox 360 controller kit.

One intrepid PSPGo owner—no doubt frustrated, like Mark was, with the portable's strange pricing structure and continued lack of dual thumb sticks—has attempted to spruce it up with a

AMD's very own self-proclaimed bad boy Ian McNaughton took a direct swing at NVIDIA and The Way it's Meant to be Played program today in a blog post that is worth taking a look at. Ian calls out some issues with several TWIMTBP titles, which is something you don't see being done everyday. If you already own or are thinking about getting Batman: Arkham Asylum, Need for Speed: Shift or Resident Evil 5 then you might want to see what Ian is upset about.

I do not know what Frankenstein has to do with arcade cabinets, nor do I care. Because this Frankenstein MAME cabinet reaches basement gaming nirvana.

This is nothing more than a beautiful shot of a Gameboy without the case. Inhale it like roses or whip cream gas, then move along with your day. [flickr via BBG]

Four years ago I got married to the most wonderful woman in the world. The evening before the wedding she knocked on my hotel room door and handed me a surprise wrapped package. It was the original PSP.

The all but confirmed Wii price cut to $200 is now in effect over at Amazon, where they get things started with the new $200 asking price.

The online retailer is also sweetening the deal with a $25 Amazon gift card, which will be good until October 3. Let the holiday insanity begin. [Kotaku]

Tokyo Game Show, new Halo, Metal Gear and Call of Duty games, more on Project Natal...it's been a huge week in gaming, even beyond all the stuff that we reported. Here's the stuff you should be sure to read.

Man's greatest triumphs are often his smallest. You may not live to defeat those purple dudes and kinda tannish green dudes that Master Chief pwnd through his Halo franchise, but you can absolutely dominate temperatures ranging down to 47-degrees Fahrenheit.