You may know Intelligent Systems from their work on the Fire Emblem series or the Paper Mario games.

The grittier sequel to Advance Wars: Dual Strike won’t be released in Japan even though it was developed there.

The Fire Emblem development team kicked around the idea of letting players revive fallen units.

Nintendo released a new gameplay video of Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem – Hero of Light and Shadow that starts with your custom Fire Emblem character.

A prequel to Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, will be included in Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem – Hero of Light and Shadow.

You can toggle permadeath in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem – Hero of Light and Shadow by choosing your play mode.

Nintendo announced a release date for Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem – Hero of Light and Shadow and it’s coming to Japan soon. Real soon. July 15 soon.

Nintendo just announced a new Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo DS that isn’t completely new.

Plus a bonus unannounced game from Intelligent Systems!

Got an e-mail from Square Enix’s PR team with those words and quotes around “should”.

Part of what makes Dragon Quest Wars brilliant is its simplicity. There are only has six kinds of units and you can’t level them up.

Dragon Quest Wars drops the story and gets straight to the heart of any good strategy game… combat. The game begins with a slime sitting in the middle of a menu screen. You can pick him up and drag him to the option menu or a ten stage training mode.

In just a few weeks Square Enix will release Dragon Quest Wars on DSiWare. Fire Emblem developers Intelligent Systems created Dragon Quest Wars as a simplified strategy RPG with colorful slimes.

Easily the most interesting question posed in Nintendo’s financial results briefing Q&A for fiscal ’09 was about fostering young talent and whether or not the company was grooming a successor to follow in the footsteps of its famed managing director/designer/producer Shigeru Miyamoto.