Publisher Nordic Games has acquired the IP for tactical space-RTS series Nexus from HD Publishing. Only one game has been released under that name, 2004's well-received Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.
“We think that Nexus was one of those heavily overlooked, hidden gems in the niche of Space-RTS,” says Reinhard Pollice, business and product development director at Nordic Games in a press release sent to us today. “We hope to start working on a sequel in the near future.”
PJ: "This time around the feature will cover a lesser known game that while impressive on many aspects, failed to reach any form of financial success. The game was such a financial failure that the company that developed it went bankrupt as a result of the title. Nexus: Jupiter Incident was developed by a Hungarian company called Mithis Entertainment. At the time when the company was closed down by Square Enix in 2010, they did already have a working tech demo for Nexus 2. Sadly, with the closing down of Mithis, Nexus 2 has become a distant dream for Nexus fans like myself."
lvl30.com: "With Nexus 2 potentially releasing soon, lvl30.com looked back at HD Interactive’s 2004 prequel: Nexus: The Jupiter Incident which was recently released on gog.com. Hold on to your space-belt! While this game was released 8 years ago, it gives modern space games a run for their credits!
The year 2004 isn’t exactly the year I would browse back to for some modern eye-candy and epic gaming. EVE-Online had just come out the year before, Age of Empires 3 had yet a year to go, and Unreal Tournament, for all practical purposes, was just getting good. For the most part, graphics (according to today’s standards) were pretty putrid. Yet, somehow, a game broke the mold to bring us space as we had truly never seen it before: Nexus – The Jupiter Incident, was born."
DasReviews writes: "We already know that Volition would kill to make FreeSpace 3. But what about all those fans that want to relieve it? Stay with us now, as we have some amazing news for you. Arparso is a mod team that loves Volition’s baby as much as you. So they made a mod for ‘Nexus: The Jupiter Incident’ that is called “FreeSpace: Evolution”. ‘FreeSpace: Evolution’ is basically a real-time strategy game that takes place in FreeSpace’s realm and aims to bring the frantic non-stop action of the original games to the tactical realm of a real-time-strategy game..."
