Fire Emblem (ファイアーエムブレム, Faiā Emuburemu) is a tactical role-playing games franchise developed by Intelligent Systems (specifically Shouzou Kaga), the makers of Advance Wars (which shares some of Fire Emblem's strategic elements), and published by Nintendo Co., Ltd. The Fire Emblem series is well-known for its innovation and for being one of the first tactical role-playing games, with a strong emphasis on Western forms of medieval folklore. The series is also renowned for having deeply developed characters, as well as the fact that most units' death—or defeat in battle—is permanent in the game until the end of the playthrough. The series currently spans ten games, and has been released on the Famicom, Super Famicom, Game Boy Advance, GameCube and Wii.Nintendo announced a Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo DS in October 2007; it is a remake of the first game, Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken, and will be the first Fire Emblem game to have online features.