Coming in the first half of 2009 to the North American Nintendo DS will be Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, the remake of the original Famicom Fire Emblem title of which we've been hearing so much (and yet, so little) for the past several months. Of course, the US never received Marth's (of Smash Bros. fame) inaugural battle, so it should still be fairly fresh for most US players.

Naturally, the DS version sees a graphical and musical facelift, including new portraits as well as new battle animations. In addition, there will be four all-new prologue chapters, along with six modes of difficulty.

And taking further advantage of the Nintendo DS' capabilities will be wireless options, and plenty of them: Not only can you battle with friends wirelessly (is that even a selling point anymore? The wireless part, I mean?), but you can also initiate a voice chat with them.

Finally, there's an online shop loaded with features, and an interesting new feature allows one to "loan" another player one's own battle units; however, in doing so, the original player still retains use of them. Everybody wins.