Computer and Video Games Information
Computer and Video Games (CVG or C+VG) is a video game magazine and website published in the United Kingdom.
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History
Initially published monthly between November 1981 (magazine launch date was 14 October 1981) and October 2004 and solely web-based from 2004 onwards,[1][2] 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 1990s 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).
New format
| Cover of issue 1 of CVG Presents | |
| Editor | Steven Williams |
|---|---|
| Categories | Computer magazine |
| Bi-monthly | |
| First issue | April 2008 |
| Company | Future Publishing |
| Country | UK |
| Website | ComputerAndVideoGames.com |
When the magazine did reappear it was in a new form, titled CVG Presents, on 16 April 2008 with a bi-monthly release schedule.[3] 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.
Future has since incorporated the forums of many of its other games related publications to ComputerAndVideoGames.com in addition to devoting sections to those that did not previously have a formal website, such as PC Gamer.
Golden Joystick awards
In April 1983, the magazine published the results of its first Golden Joystick Awards, along with pictures from the ceremony in Berkeley Square. DJ Dave Lee Travis presented the award for best game of the year to Jetpac.[4]
References
- ^ The new CVG site - .net magazine
- ^ http://www.futureplc.com/2008/04/07/computer-video-games-returns-to-the-newsstand/
- ^ News: CVG Magazine returns! - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
- ^ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue030/Pages/CVG03000081.jpg
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Categories:
- Publications disestablished in 2004
- British video game magazines
- Defunct computer magazines
- Home computer magazines
- Magazines established in 1981
- Publications established in 2008
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