Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, released as Advance Wars: Dark Conflict in Europe and Australia, is a turn-based strategy video game for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the fourth installment in the Advance Wars series after Advance Wars: Dual Strike and was released in 2008 for North America on January 21; in Europe on January 25; and in Australia on February 21. A Japanese release was planned under the title of Famicom Wars DS: Lost Light, but it was canceled after a series of delays. However on October 30, 2013, it finally became available in Japan through Club Nintendo as a downloadable platinum status reward for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. This was the last game in the Advance Wars series (and by extension, the Wars franchise) before going on hiatus for the next decad