Label this as mega rumour for now, but if a reliable Kotaku source is correct—and we think they are—this is the first leaked press shot of an upcoming game pie. Yes, you read that right, game pie, not cake. We realise it’s like saying we have acquired a shot of the Loch Ness monster or McWhertor in Wal-Mart jeans, but trust us, we don’t put our reputation on the line for every teenager that sends us some store-bought pie with Mario painted on with icing.

We have some emails out on the matter and will keep you updated as the story unfolds.

Surfing the forums for breaking news this morning, we came across this wicked cookie mod from MasterDarkXSugarZero39 in which he took one normal sugar cookie and, with two to three hours of sweat and toil, transformed it to very closely resemble one of gaming’s most iconic characters. So close, in fact, we can’t remember if that’s the cookie picture above or the Pac-Man photo intended for the side-by-side comparison.

This is not a video game cake. Here at Kaketaku, we are constantly getting submissions like this, and quite frankly I am getting sick of it. Any Publix baker can make a plain vanilla sheet cake and paint Mario on top of it with coloured frosting. Hell, I could make a sheet cake and paint my arse on top of it but you wouldn’t see it being posted on a sex cake website. Effort, people. You have to build a video game cake. Shape it Mold it. Sure, pixel cupcakes are just tiny frosted cakes, but the come together to form something. Effort was put into composition. If you’re going to create a square cake and paint something on top of it you might as well just buy some Betty Crocker and stick the DVD case of your favourite game on top of the frosting. Some of our commenters argue that video game cakes started off as simple frosted sheets, and I agree…but unless you are throwing a retro kitsch party than that shit doesn’t fly anymore. Just my two cups of powdered sugar.

It’s time for the final round of our cake coating death match! Only two confectionery contenders remain standing from our initial field of thirty cake toppings: fan-favourite fondant, which gives a cake that smooth, professional look, and the surprise challenger, ganache. Who’d have thought that plucky ganache, the chocolate cream creation from the mid-1800s would have toppled the more versatile butter cream? Well topple it did, and now it all comes down to this…the icing on the cake, as it were. Make your vote be heard, faithful Kaketaku readers!

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We were pretty excited to see this Atari 2600 cake show up in our Cake Tips line, showing off a proof of concept of the icing advancements shown at the recent Cake Developers Conference. Sure, you’re probably aware of our distaste for black icing, but the iced texture tech from the developers at Cakes By The Pound have made us forget about the black toothed cake party hangover that we hate so much. The team is more of a casual cake dev, but it’s clear they’ve got hardcore appeal. Thanks to Jeff and Gabriel for the heads up!

Sorry, Europe. While Japan and the US scoff down slice after delicious slice of cake, a European release date has yet to be announced, sparking fears that they’lll miss the summer cake-eating season all together. Most industry pundits now expect the cake to be baked sometime around Christmas. Bummer. Anyone who can’t wait that long should know that a packet of FreeBaker mix (be sure to add 2 extra egg whites!) will let you import Japanese and/or American ingredients, but there’s no guarantee of these working in future baking tray releases.

Sadly, not much in the way of premium content in today’s CakeStation Store update, with much of the week’s content padded out by the latest batch of updates for Tom Clancy’s Cuban Cinamon Crisis 2. Fans of the series will find a carrot cake recipe ($US 3.99), a Sgt. Jack Rutgerson baking tray skin ($US 1.99) and a couple of candle arrangement plans (FREE) waiting for them. Those who aren’t fans of the series? For you, not much.

Japan does not like portable caking. Japan freakin loves portable caking. Evidence: the launch last night of the latest portable cake sensation, which drew crowds of hundreds to stores across Akihabara for midnight openings. While it’s already been available for years in chocolate and vanilla, and was relaunched last year as a limited edition sponge cake, the promise of a banana cake variation was just too much for the die-hard, with most stores selling out before they could satisfy the midnight crowd, let alone the fresh batch of campers who turned up before regular opening hours.

I was pretty psyched to read about the Dead Space team’s recent grossest-cakes bake-off. The folks worked around the clock to try and out do one another with a bit of frosting, cake and ganache.

The goriest cake by far is the Severed Head Cake created by the team’s Michael Condry. The cake features a severed head, a fondant covering and fondant saw blade. Inside the vanilla cake is blood berry sauce. The final effect proves that Condry is a master of the trade… or is he?

MTV Multiplayer recently uncovered news that the over the top severed head is in fact a rubber mask. Say it ain’t so. How many times do Game Cake makers have to be caught touching up their cakes with smoke and mirrors before they realise all we care about is what’s on the inside?

Do These Freshly-Baked Cakes Get You Excited For EA’s ‘Dead Space’? [MTV Multiplayer]