Nexus Editrice
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Founded in 1993, Nexus Editrice was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 game publisher.

Nexus produced board game
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...

s, role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

s, card game
Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...

s, miniature game
Miniature wargaming
Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming that incorporates miniature figures, miniature armor and modeled terrain as the main components of play...

s, published magazines devoted to games, and licensed to the italian market games from many major international games publishers, such as Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO, Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product in 1997, the company has been doing...

, Games Workshop
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...

, Fasa
Fasa
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 and Kosmos.

Nexus also created original games which have been distributed worldwide, including:
  • the award-winning War of the Ring
    War of the Ring (board game)
    War of the Ring is a strategy board game by Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, first produced by Nexus Editrice and currently published by NG International....

    game (2004), its major international success;
  • the "Marvel Heroes" game (2006);
  • 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
    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 announced by Ares Games as Wings of Glory....

    (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 "Atlantic
Atlantic (company)
Atlantic was an Italian toy manufacturing company based in Treviglio from 1966 to 1984. In the 1970s it became widely popular both in Italy and in Europe as a producer of 1:32- and HO-scale toy soldiers...

" figures.

Nexus Games is now a brand owned by the italian company NG International, a subsidiary of Italeri
Italeri
Italeri Incorporated is an Italian manufacturer of plastic scale models of airplanes, military vehicles, helicopters, ships, trucks, cars and figures...

.
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