Eurogames is a publisher of

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s, founded in 1984 as Jeux Rexton (Rexton Games) to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, '' Cry Havoc'' and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more board games, starting with six games purchased from the bankrupt

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gaming company,

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. At this time the company became Eurogames. Eurogames itself was later purchased by

Jeux Descartes Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for ...

, and they remained an imprint of that company until Descartes' bankruptcy. Jeux Descartes's assets were then purchased by French publisher

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, who appears to be slowly merging some of Eurogames and Descartes games into their own line. In a brief interim period, Eurogames distribution rights were licensed to Cafe Games, who published the ''

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'' Mythology expansion in 2005 under a Eurogames/Cafe Games label. Well-known games published by Eurogames: *''

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'' * '' Evo'' * ''

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* {{board-game-stub Board game publishing companies fr:Jeux Descartes#Eurogames