Later this week, millions of ethnically Chinese people will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by getting together and having large family meals. Fast forward to the following week, millions upon millions of gifted "moon cakes" will be rotting away in the trash. Even the ridiculously cute and ornate ones. » 9/16/13 6:00am 9/16/13 6:00am

Our colleagues at Kotaku Japan are celebrating their fourth anniversary, complete with a new Kotaku-tan character, a cake, and Red Bull. Congrats! » 8/01/13 5:30am 8/01/13 5:30am

The spear isn't for stabbing; it's for eating! As previously noted, Japan is getting a ¥4,000 (US$50) Neon Genesis Evangelion moon cake, bundled with the spear of Mark.06 and a Kaworu Nagisa figure. » 10/22/12 5:30am 10/22/12 5:30am

If you said, tennis balls look cute, I could see that. They're green and fuzzy, and that's cute, I guess. But delicious looking?

Tokyo sweet shop Nikki Cafe is serving (GEDDIT?) tennis ball shaped cakes called, um, "Tennis Ball Cakes" for ¥450 (US$5.80) apiece. They not only look realistic, they also look yummy. » 9/27/12 5:20am 9/27/12 5:20am

Team Fortress 2 » 4/25/12 12:00pm 4/25/12 12:00pm

Maybe you're a fan of the original X-Com and met today's news of the upcoming XCom: Enemy Unknown strategy title with great joy. Maybe you don't know anything about the X-Com legacy and don't know what the hubbub about either game is about. Which XCom is for you, then? » 1/05/12 3:30pm 1/05/12 3:30pm

It's Halloween. What better day to talk about overpriced Resident Evil food? So, let's do that! Then, let's talk about a gun. » 10/31/11 11:00am 10/31/11 11:00am

In celebration of this weekend's QuakeCon and the 20th anniversary of id Software, id and Bethesda sent me the most hideous cake I've ever had sitting on my coffee table, and I shop at the Publix bakery. » 8/03/11 12:20pm 8/03/11 12:20pm

This is a pretty great replica of Portal 2's Space Core. The scale is good, the colours are right, the lighting looks spot on, and I bet it was delicious. Wait, what? » 7/25/11 4:00am 7/25/11 4:00am

Mouldering green pig heads aren't typically appetizing, but these Angry Birds cakes don't look half bad. » 7/07/11 2:40pm 7/07/11 2:40pm

Cookpad.com is a Japanese website where folks can upload their recipes and share with others. Unfortunately, whoever made this Pikachu cake decided to do just that. » 12/30/10 6:00am 12/30/10 6:00am

This cake featuring a crashed Air Force One is based on a game David Braben's Frontier Developments is making. Their most recent work was the toss-frisbees-at-cute-tigers game Kinectimals. But could this be Braben's reminder of something thought lost, something cooler? » 12/13/10 5:00pm 12/13/10 5:00pm

The Sunday celebration in New York City for Super Mario Bros.' 25th anniversary included cake, Super Mario cake. » 11/08/10 3:00pm 11/08/10 3:00pm

Going away present for a family member moving to Oregon. Presumably no rivers need fording. Seen via Reddit. » 8/24/10 10:30pm 8/24/10 10:30pm

In the second installment of The Book of Naughty, our favorite vengeful stuffed animal killer makes his victim a cake as fast as he can. » 4/15/10 11:40am 4/15/10 11:40am

PS3 Game Cake with two games, one incompatible. Created by Debbie Does Cakes and seen via PS3 Maven [thanks Julius] » 12/29/09 10:40pm 12/29/09 10:40pm

Offbeat Bride brings us the story of Anli and Laura — two Aussie gamer chicks who got hitched September 5th in a Portal- and Revolutionary Girl Utena-themed wedding. » 10/27/09 5:30am 10/27/09 5:30am