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Computer and Video Games (CVG) is a video game magazine in the United Kingdom. Initially published monthly between November 1981 and October 2004 and solely web-based from 2004 onwards, the magazine was one of the first publications to capitalise on the growing home computing market, although it also covered arcade games. The magazine saw many changes over the course of its life, and by the mid 1990's had switched focus to concentrate entirely on games consoles.
   The magazine was "suspended" in 2004 after Future Publishing bought the magazine (alongside PC Zone) from Dennis Publishing Ltd who had themselves purchased it from the magazine's original publishers EMAP. Future, who also published CVG's main rival Gamesmaster, subsequently decided to publish their magazine as opposed to keeping CVG in operation. Subscribers received a copy of Gamesmaster in place of CVG, along with a letter claiming the magazine had been suspended to allow the staff a break and would return in a few months.
   The magazine returned in a new form, titled CVG Presents, on 16 April 2008 and will be released bi-monthly. The new format concentrates the whole magazine on a single subject. The first issue of the new format concentrated on the history of the Grand Theft Auto series of games.
   In the meantime, the magazine's website has continued to flourish, and recently Future incorporated the forums of many of its other games related publications to ComputerAndVideoGames.com in addition to devoting sections to those that didn't previously have a formal website, such as PC Gamer.

Previous editors

Magazine

Terry Pratt
Tim Metcalfe
Eugene Lacey
Graham Taylor
Julian Rignall
Tim Boone
Paul Rand
Mark Patterson
Paul Davies
Alex Simmons

Website

Gareth Ramsay

Patrick Garratt (2002/2003)

Johnny Minkley (early 2004)

Stuart Bishop (acting Ed 2004)

John Houlihan (late 2004)

Gavin Ogden (2006)

Trivia

Whilst editor, Paul Davies almost lost his job due to the sheer volume of Tekken 3 coverage he ran each month. This included printing every character's complete moves-lists twice (once for the arcade and once when the PlayStation version was released), and 3 consecutive previews in the final months before the release. Whilst some magazines do this with most big games, it's rare that both previews were cover stories - one of which was the main cover story, before the review was also the main story two months after the first preview.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, CVG staff member Ed Lomas took on quasi-mythical status due to his (largely mocked) love for Pink Floyd, and had his own section in the Freeplay section of the magazine called The Legend of Lomas, featuring tips and cheats for all systems.Further Information

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