The fondant creations range from table top to video games with a heavy emphasis on retro titles. Dahlberg even has a "quiz" on her site, allowing visitors to play our favorite parlor game, Guess The Cupcake.

100 Cupcakes [Steelhead Studio via WilWheaton via bbps]

pac-man bracelet chomps its way around your wrist on [Technabob]

A Bandai Namco spokesperson has revealed that the huge 18-meter statue will be once again erected in the city of Shizuoka this July — specifically, the east exit of Japan Rail Higashi-Shizuoka Station.

Why Shizuoka? The Production Factory for Bandai's Gundam plastic models are located in Shizuoka. This is a homecoming of sorts. A really, really big homecoming.

Originally, the statue went up in Tokyo's Odaiba last July for the 35th Anniversary of Gundam and was taken done in September. The statue was visited by over 4 million.

等身大ガンダム、静岡で来年７月に復活決定 [SANSPO via reggiocomics via DannyChoo]

By genetically engineering bacteria to express fluorescent proteins and carotenoid pigments. The result?

Mario from Super Mario Bros.

*applause*

Masterworks in Petri dishes [NewScientist Thanks, Tommy!]

Get ready to punch people into BLOODY EXPLOSIONS!

As we previously posted, the manga debuted in 1983 and went on to spin off two animated series and motion pictures.

『北斗無双』、2010年3月発売！ - ファミ通.com [Famitsu]

"So why did I decide to build an NES?," writes Dave Sterling. "I think mainly just to see if I could. I've never done something I would consider ‘art' or ‘sculpture' in LEGO and I really wanted to give it a try and see if I could recreate something directly to scale."

His creation is 1/16th of an inch of the actual dimensions — bravo!

MOCOlympics Round #6: Dave Sterling vs. Crimso Giger in Atari: A LEGO® creation by Dave Sterling [MOCpages.com via Brothers Brick via Gizmodo]

Seventeen games to get 76 percent — you try to do better! Dazzling stuff. Great tune, too.

Guitar Hero played on a massive scale using soccer balls [I Heart Chaos]

There's Queen, too. Queen makes everything better.

Osu! [Official Site via GoNintendo via GameSetWatch]

There's Pokémon.

Here, Hudson tells website Everything is Terrible! about his Pokémon card game strategy — just to make our heads exploded, we think. What, is this guy trying to destroy the awesome meter or something?

Ernie Hudson's Pokémon Strategy [Topless Robot]

The SNES Portable sports a 2.5 inch screen, and according to darthchris13, the tricky part was getting all the SNES wiring into such a small casing. Nice work.

Une magnifique Nintendo SNES Portable et son emballage [Nowhere Else]

Sure, these could be fuzzy memories of something I wish I would've have experienced between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, but here it is, Pac-Man Land at theme park Six Flags Over Texas.

This Pac-Man children's play area was open from 1983-1985. It was awesome.

Pacman Land [Flickr via Technabob via Tiny Cartridge]

The demo lets players walk around a dungeon and attack baddies from The Legend of Zelda all from a first person p.o.v. and in 3D.

FPS Zelda [Phenex via Infendo]

Ain't It Cool is reporting that Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider-Man) has signed on to direct the film version of Warcraft. "It [the announcement] will come out in trades later this week or next," writes Ain't It Cool. "But you can take this one to the bank."

The movie version has been in development at Legendary Pictures for several years now.

Not official confirmation by any means. Stay tuned!

Update: Variety has confirmed that Raimi will be helming the picture. Legendary Pictures and Blizzard will be collaborating with Warner Bros., who will be co-financing and distributing the film.

The movie will be produced by The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven. Blizzard's senior VP of creative development Chris Metzen will co-producer. Raimi is supervising the film's development while shooting Spider-Man 4 next year.

"At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story," said Raimi. "I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen."

The official press release refers to the move simply as "Warcraft" and not "World of Warcraft".

AICN Exclusive Confirmed: Sam Raimi is going to direct WORLD OF WARCRAFT!!! [AICN Thanks to all who sent this in!]

Thanks, Chinpokomon!

The game can be downloaded here. Enjoy!

生存確認 [Sugeno's Blog via Canned Dogs]

This new patent filing reveals a Sony motion controller that uses a mapping system to incorporate everyday objects such as "coffee mugs, drinking glasses, books, bottles, etc." as a motion controller. In the drawing, those everyday objects are illustrated by that horse-shoe-looking U in the man's hand.

Basically, this tech appears to allow players to use a variety of real world items in game play.

To map the object, players show it to the camera and rotate it so that the object is captured and saved as a file. The system can then identify this object and respond to its movements.

The manner in which the object is held can affect game play. For example, in the illustration below, the object is held "up" which reveals the lightsaber-like sword. Holding the object down turns the sword "off".

Sony Patents A Motion Control System That Uses Ordinary Objects As Controllers [Siliconera]

This XCM Eye-Candy shell is a DSi replacement casing and comes with replacement buttons and a screwdriver. Yours for around US$30.

Smooth Crystal [XCM via MAXCONSOLE via OhGizmo! via Newlaunches]

It set in the year 1066. England is in turmoil, invaded from the outside. Players try to outflank and attack their enemies.

Pleasing to play and pleasing to the eye. Check it out.

1066 [Channel 4]

YouTuber conquerearth explains how it works:

The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in a linear scale representing the X and Y axis. Pitch becomes horizontal control, and Volume becomes vertical control.
The X and Y scales are then cut up into different zones. In this case, Left; Right and dead zones for the horizontal, and a single trigger and dead zone for the vertical.

The trigger zones are then mapped onto a virtual joystick hooked into an emulator.

The end result is a fairly usable input control for playing games like mario. The bars give the much needed visual feedback as to how "in tune" you are, so you have a better feel of where the trigger points are.

As conquerearth points out, it's possible to control the game with your voice or even a guitar or a violin.