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 '' Dragon'' 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, role-playing games,

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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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, Games Workshop,

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and Kosmos. 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 ''Wings of War'', by Andrea Angiolino and Pier Giorgio Paglia, is a modular boardgame collection published by Nexus Editrice and dedicated to air combat. A new edition is published by Ares Games as ''Wings of Glory''. The games mix card ga ...

'' (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