Play as Coco in next Crash Bandicoot

Love Crash Bandicoot, but sometimes wish he were a she, you might be in luck. Sierra has announced a new Crash Bandicoot title for Wii, Xbox 360, PS2, DS and PSP. The game will be titled Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant and sees Crash return with "new abilities and his signature bandicoot hilarity".

Great news for girl gamers though is also the news that you'll apparently be able to play as Coco in this outing for the franchise. Sadly there doesn't appear to be a single player option, but then the game is called Crash Bandicoot and not Coco Bandicoot, so that's to be expected. You'll be able to play as Coco in co-op mode.

Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant is due out later in the year.

Silent Hill Homecoming sounding cool

Hands up who loves Silent Hill? Hands up who thinks Silent Hill was one of the creepiest games ever! Yes me too. What girl doesn't love the Silent Hill games for a good scare and think about it the game series and the movie that followed all feature some really cool female characters, which let's face it, makes a damn nice change!

On the downside vampire killing title Harker seems to have bit the big one, what with Double Helix hammering away at the next Silent Hill title 'Homecoming'. Me, I'll be glad of another Silent Hill title... bring it!

No Females for Metal Gear Online?

Since we're all about the female gamer (as we are here obviously), this is probably going to rile you ever so slightly. It doesn't look like we female types have been taken into consideration with regards to Metal Gear Online character creation. What a shock I hear you cry!

The trailer is out for MGS character creation and at this stage it looks pretty lame, though they have tried to cover racial bases by including what looks like superficial attempts at the 'main' racial types. Shame they don't appear to have thought about gender--assuming that didn't happen beforehand, but feedback to the clip seems to suggest that isn't the case.

Animal Crossing Wii release date now please!

Not that we're impatient here at Girl Gamers, but we want a release date for Animal Crossing Wii please, this has gone on long enough people. We've been doing a little snooping and have come up with some Animal Crossing Wii facts (if anything in gaming is a fact until the game is released).

The announcement of the new DS liter than Lite at E3 this year... said to be utter bollocks by Nintendo and isn't going to happen. Thing is if Nintendo don't announce something pretty big it's going to be a letdown. So let's assume Nintendo denying the existence of a new DS is true (though they said the DS Lite didn't exist prior to its official announcement so go figure), they need to pull something out of the hat.

Recently the Japanese Club Nintendo calender was sent out and what was the image for December? Animal Crossing, so will it be out at Xmas this year? Probably completely unrelated, but our fingers are crossed. We want a release date for Animal Crossing Wii and we wants it soon!

Seriously Nintendo were banging on about this when the Wii was still known as the Revolution! Back in 2006 it was said you'd be able to send letters to Animal Crossing Wii from your PC or cellphone and the characters in game would receive them (thanks to the magic of WiiConnet24). Come on that was 2006!!!

Wher the hell is Animal Crossing Wii? At what stage is it at and when are we likely to see it. We're sick of waiting and we bet you probably are too.

Morgan Webb rags on gamer guy - Why it hurts all of us.

Morgan Webb as you my know is known as 'The Gaming Goddess'. She gained this title because she's a gamer (or said she was) and worked on Tech TV (G4 now) where she went on to host The Screen Savers and of course X-Play. She also had a monthly column at lads mag FHM where she unsurprisingly wrote about video games.

Here's the thing, Webb was recently spotted on the Tyra Banks show 'Tyra' as an expert on video games and she proceeded to make it sound as though only guys play them and that they're psychologically trying to live a sad little life through them. Now this kind of annoyed us here at Girl Gamer Australia because she probably should have been a bit more pro gamer and also pointed out that girls do play and enjoy gaming too.

You can watch the video below:

Forbidden Siren 3 countdown

Anyone play Forbidden Siren a few years ago or the sequel Forbidden Siren 2? Well be prepared for Siren 3 because a countdown website has appeared at the Sony Japan site and everyone is laying bets that's what it's about.

If you missed the Forbidden Siren titles, they're well worth a look. Really cool survival horror mixed with a very creepy atmosphere overall. The first title was released back in 2004 on the PS2 with Forbidden Siren 2 releasing in 2006. That pretty much puts this countdown right on target for the third title in the series.

You can check out the countdown HERE.

Dual Shock 3 - Aussie gamers 'Shocked' alright

Australian gamers should take up their banners, their protest signs and start marching on these huge companies that think we're bloody stupid. With news last week that Rock Band is likely to cost double here by comparison to the US price, news today that the Dual Shock 3 for PS3 is also going to cost you double what your US pals are paying for the same thing.

Let's put that into perspective. The Dual Shock 2 cost around $50 to purchase here in Australia, the Dual Shock 3 will set you back a whopping $100! If you've got money to burn it will be out April 24. It will cost you around $50 from the US, if you can find a friend kind enough to post it to you.