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.
Our colleagues at Kotaku Japan are celebrating their fourth anniversary, complete with a new Kotaku-tan character, a cake, and Red Bull. Congrats!
The spear isn't for stabbing; it's for eating! As previously noted
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.
Maybe you're a fan of the original X-Com and met today's news of the upcoming XCom: Enemy Unknown
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.
Bakers have worked to capture the beauty of our favorite video games in cake form since the dawn of time. From amateur bakers to world famous chefs, video game cakes are a staple of any cook worth their weight in fondant. Now it's your time to get your hands sticky and create your own masterpiece.
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.
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?
Mouldering green pig heads aren't typically appetizing, but these Angry Birds cakes don't look half bad.
Asshole Dog. Bad Dudes. Cake jokes. Memes are, by definition, overdone, but the last one went past its expiration date in last week's 'Shop Contest, according to everyone. So let's put it to bed with this week's look at the MLB 2K11 Million-Dollar Perfect Game.
StarCraft is the latest contender in the too-good-to-eat gamecake category. As seen on Reddit (via Hot Blooded Gaming).
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.
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
The Sunday celebration in New York City for Super Mario Bros.' 25th anniversary included cake, Super Mario cake.
Going away present for a family member moving to Oregon. Presumably no rivers need fording. Seen via Reddit.
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.
PS3 Game Cake with two games, one incompatible. Created by Debbie Does Cakes and seen via PS3 Maven [thanks Julius]
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.
The Schackelford wedding, as seen on Go Nintendo [Via Bitmob]
UK's Tesco store have started selling New Super Mario Bros. celebration cakes.
Since there are custom Mii cake toppers
Fat Princess developer Titan has developed a rather novel process for selecting 250 beta testers for the PlayStation Network exclusive title - let them eat cake.
I just received a pretty spectacular package at my front door: A DSi and accompanying larger-than-life cake.
We don't really write about cakes that often anymore, but this one is pretty amazing. The sides of the cake show a typical level in the early days of side-scroller Castlevania.
Even though I began at Kotaku maybe a little over four weeks ago, I think this is the day I am truly inaugurated, as I post my very first cake picture.
