Mega Man Battle Network and Street Fighter II have arrived on Game Boy Advance.

Two of Capcom’s biggest franchises have finally arrived for the Game Boy Advance in the form of Mega Man Battle Network and Street Fighter II Turbo Revival. Mega Man is an all-new take on the classic title while SFII is a handheld version of one of the biggest fighting games of all time. Capcom issued this release yesterday:

TDK has made a demo available for Lady Sia that you can download & try on your PC.

Lady Sia was recently released for the GBA by TDK. The game is a 2D platformer featuring a female protagonist that fights against beast-men and possesses the ability to occasionally transform into a giant sasquatch.

The demo is 3.55 MB and completely free.

Lady Sia is no cheap date though. If you want the full deal you’ll have to buy the game on your GBA. This is a great opportunity to see if you’d want to.

Starting November 18th, Red Octane will be renting NGC games online.

Red Octane, a company that rents console games online has just announced that it will be renting every single GameCube launch title on November 18th. All GameCube games will be available online for the standard seven-day rental price of $6.95. Members of the RedOctane's G2 Program will have unlimited access to GameCube games for a monthly fee of $16.95.

Nintendo has ratings in on some of the GameCube launch titles, and they're quite a surprise!

The Gamecube preview CD-ROM isn't the only surprise in issue 150 of Nintendo Power this month. Another surprise lies in the ratings given by Nintendo Power to some of the GameCube launch titles.

Rogue Leader, widely considered to be the GameCube's "killer app" due to the lack of a Mario title at launch, was given a 5 star rating (nearly perfect, since two reviewers gave it 4.5 stars, and the score rounds up).

The popular Spyro the Dragon games are branching out, and the first GBA game based on the series has just shipped.

Spyro the Dragon first appeared in a 3D platforming game on PlayStation, and has since won the hearts of millions of fans around the world. Now Universal Interactive is taking Spyro to new heights -- and new systems. The first non-PSX Spyro game is an isometric platforming adventure on Game Boy Advance, and it should be on store shelves by the end of this week. Here's what UI had to say about the occasion:

Take a look at what Canadians are getting instead of CubeClubs.

Since I was in Toronto on business the past weekend, I decided to make a detour to the neighboring city of Newmarket, about an hour and a half drive's away. So I ended up in the Upper Canada Mall, thanks to my |337 map reading |