In Real Life

Now You’re Baking With Portals!

First off, wow. We’ve seen lots of Portal cakes floating around the internet. Usually with expected taglines of “the cake is a lie.”


March 2, 2012
In Real Life

The Most Frightening Lunch Ever

Most Japanese bento lunches are either cute (for little kids) or boring (for adults). This one is…different.


In Real Life

Spider-Man, Like You’ve Never Eaten Before

Remember when Japan got meat buns shaped like the Slime character from Dragon Quest? Well, now your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is getting his own bun, too.


January 25, 2012
Xbox

This Xbox 360 Controller Dispenses Hot Pockets

It’s…it’s like a dream come true.


January 16, 2012
In Real Life

The Life-Sized Stormtrooper You Can Eat

Over the years, Kotaku has posted so many cakes that the site is now jaded. It takes a lot to impress. It takes a life-sized Stormtrooper.


January 13, 2012
News

Capcom Bar Serves Edible Resident Evil ‘Brains’

On January 25, Capcom, the game company behind Resident Evil and Street Fighter, will open…a bar. It’s called Capcom Bar. Clever.


December 29, 2011
In Real Life

How To Cook Your Own Grand Theft Auto Burger

Grand Theft Auto’s famous Cluckin’ Bell chain of restaurants have a mainstay menu item called the Fowl Burger. Looking like a filthy chicken burger, costing only $US1 and regenerating health makes them magical. So magical it’s worth trying to prepare your own, in the real world.


November 22, 2011
In Real Life

Make And Bake Your Own Video Game Food!

Kotaku AU

In video games, food is all important. It provides us with sustenance, keeps that health bar at safe levels and gives us those nutritious points our avatars so sorely need. Gourmet Gaming is a website that shows you how to create that scrumptious in-game food in real life. Feel like feasting on the Portal Cake? Or chomping down on the chunk of meat from Golden Axe? Gourmet Gaming will show you how!


November 3, 2011
In Real Life

Halo Pizza Is Here, Fortunately Restricted To The U.K.

Never renowned for fine cuisine, the U.K. is probably the perfect market in which to launch an official Halo pizza from Pizza Hut.


October 4, 2011
In Real Life

Turning Video Game Food Into Real, Delicious Food

Daniella Zelli is making me hungry. She runs a website called Gourmet Gaming, which exists solely to take the food found in video games and bring it into the real world.