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Move over Cooking Mama, Hell's Kitchen video game coming!

Posted Dec 9th 2007 6:35PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Television/Film, New Products

We don't normally get a lot of video game news in the food world other than the occasional release of something like Cooking Mama, so imagine how we felt when we heard about the latest foodie-inspired game idea to come shooting out of your wireless ~~joystick~~ controller. Hell's Kitchen is going to be a video game.

We weren't exactly sure how this tv-tie in was going to be translated into a video game, but when we found out that it's basically going to be "the fun of the kitchen boot camp experience," like it is for the contestants on the Fox show, we got it. Players will subjected to Chef Ramsey's four-letter infused screaming while trying to turn out some of the Chef's recipes (which will be included with the game).

The game will ship next year in conjunction with the premiere of the 4th season of Hell's Kitchen. We are hoping to get a chance to play.

[via: Joystiq and TVSquad]

There's gamer porn, and there's food porn...

Posted May 6th 2007 12:02PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Dessert, Food Porn , Pop Food, Baking, On the Blogs

...and then there's gamer food porn.

Gamecakes is a blog that is wholly dedicated to one thing, and one thing only: cakes that have to do with video games. The idea comes from Michael Fahey, a writer for mega gaming blog, Kotaku. While it's obvious to have an entire blog dedicated to the industry of video games, who knew there were enough gaming geeks who liked to bake cakes, and decorate them quite impressively, as well?

(And no, I have no idea what gamer porn would be.)

Super Mario Nutcracker

Posted Nov 20th 2006 3:00PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Nuts/seeds, On the Blogs, Food Gadgets

You really never know just quite what you'll find on eBay these days. Take this Super Mario nutcracker that's being auctioned on the Canadian eBay site. I'm not sure if Canadians are any more obsessed with video games than Americans, but it's pretty safe to say that this is the only Super Mario Nutcracker out there.

Standing just over a foot high, the hand-painted plumber sports a snazzy red and blue uniform and, of course, his signature moustache. The Mario Nutcracker's creator is selling it for $20, plus $15 shipping. He claims that it's the first in a series of pop culture nutcrackers. The next one might be Chuck Norris, he adds.

What, no Donkey Kong!?

[via: Kotaku]

Video game cakes

Posted Aug 3rd 2006 7:01PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: Baking, On the Blogs

These video-game inspired cakes from Glitter Pissing seemed to fit right in with the other strange (some have said "geeky") series of cakes we've featured recently on Slashfood. There were the Stargate cupcakes, the sysadmin cupcakes and then the meat cake. According to blogger r4kk4, these cakes, which include the Nintendo you see here, arcade versions of Centipede and Ms. Pacman and a Gameboy with Tetris pieces, were created for a cakewalk to benefit the nonprofit youth literacy group 826 Seattle. From the looks of the dozens of comments, there could definitely be a market for cakes like these.

Play-baking with Cake Mania

Posted May 19th 2006 1:29PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: New Products, Bakeries

cake mania video game It looks like food is space invading the video game world. We've seen a couple of games already: fun games like Diner Dash and Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS Lite, as well as educational games like Food Force from the UN's World Food Programme.

Cake Mania, previously an online-game, is fresh out of the oven, frosted, boxed, and headed to the PC. The game, called a perfect balance between "fun and educational" in the PC-version will have additional levels.

Something to do while you're waiting for your muffins to cool, I think.

End hunger in a video game

Posted Mar 28th 2006 10:45PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Alt-SlashFood, Raves & Reviews, Trends, New Products

Not all video games are horrible. Just try out the simulation called Food Force, in which players take on six missions to help feed millions of hungry people in a place called Sheylan in the Indian Ocean.

The game, freely downloadable off of Yahoo, was created by, of all groups, the United Nations. The UN has a sub-organization called the World Food Programme (WFP) whose mission is "halving the proportion of hungry people in the world." The game is mostly educational, representing to players what the day to day tasks of the WFP are: from determining a what a balanced diet for the people of Sheylan would be to figuring out they best way to distribute aid. No guns, no shooting, but there are a few helicopter rides.

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Move over Cooking Mama, Hell's Kitchen video game coming!

There's gamer porn, and there's food porn...

Super Mario Nutcracker

Video game cakes

Play-baking with Cake Mania

End hunger in a video game

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