The world is truly full of cakes.

Today at Joystiq, fellow cake-lovers will be happy to find “Good Enough to Eat,” a Playing Dirty column about the game community’s recent crush on video-game cakes, as it relates to gender (kind of) and consuming our fandom (definitely). Though I have to admit, I’m still largely baffled on the subject.  Fan art is fan art, but you don’t usually eat it.  And the idea of taking a bite out of a beloved video-game character…

For my bat mitzah a million years ago, my cake was covered with an enormous icing rendition of me in a kayak (yes, strange).  I was personally too busy being awkward to recall tasting it at the time, but I know no one could bear to eat my three-dimensional icing face, which has been living in our freezer ever since. I do, however, own a Hello Kitty toaster, which goes out of its way to burn her adorable visage onto my bread products (mostly unsuccessfully), which I have no qualms about ingesting.  Confusing.

Anyways, what I want to know, is where are all the hardcore game cakes?  Katamari?  Mario?  Blah!  Give me the Halo 2 cake.  Give me a cake that embodies the experience of pumping round after round of ammunition into my enemies.  Can you say red icing?  Delicious!