Nexus Editrice was an Italian game publisher founded in 1993.

History

By 2003,

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were able to license translations of ''

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'' and ''

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'' magazines to Nexus Editrice, who used that license to publish a combined magazine called ''Dragon & Dungeon'' beginning in April 2003. Nexus produced

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s, miniature games, published magazines devoted to games, and licensed to the Italian market games from many major international games publishers, such as

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and

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. Nexus also created original games which have been distributed worldwide, including ''

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'' game (2004), the "Marvel Heroes" game (2006) and the "Rattlesnake" children game (2007). Nexus also published original game lines: * the '' X-Bugs'' series (2001), later released as "Micro Mutants", a dexterity-based humoristic game; * the '' Wings of War'' (2004–2007) series of airplane combat games, translated into 14 different languages. Nexus Editrice also re-launched on the international market a classic brand of historical miniatures, the "

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" figures. Nexus Games is now a brand owned by the Italian company NG International, a subsidiary of

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References

Board game publishing companies Role-playing game publishing companies Companies of Italy Italian companies established in 1993 {{card-game-stub