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This question is to all Gamers out there

WTF happened to CVG Magazine (Computer & Video Games Magazine)

I haven't been able to get this magazine for ages, which IMO was the greatest Computer games magazine ever.

Not only that but it was also the oldest (first established in 1981)

However the last edition I remember is from October 2004 there was no mention that it was going anywhere then.

Can anyone please help

Basically in short, Future Publishing home to Edge magazine, .net , PC Format amongst others bought out the publisher and because Future have a magazine similar to CVG called Gamesmaster, they decided to stop publishing CVG immediately although the website still continues.

Thanks for the info

Absolutely stupid idea!

I like Gamesmaster as well, in fact Gamesmaster & CVG were my two favourite magazines.

Surely they would have been wiser to keep CVG seeing as it had been going for over 20 years & Gamesmaster only 10

CVG was a completely different beast when it was sold on from EMAP back in the late 90's. In fact, their 20th anniversary issue in 2001 was pants. There was a top 100 games of all time with the majority of games in the last few years prior to the countdown and the older games relegated towards the end of top 100.

Then they wasted 6 pages on cartoons looking at kid's bedrooms from past, present and future with all the techy gadgets in there and that was about it for their 20th anniversary.

As for keeping one mag on than the other based on their age would be a bad idea. Although I didn't really read CVG towards it's demise and only raised interest with their annivesrary issue, that particular issue looked like it was aimed at the very younger age of clientel in the market place.