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Computer and Video Games
CVG #117, cover dated August 1991
Editor	Paul Davies
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	November 1981
Final issue — Number	October 2004
Company	Future Publishing
Country	UK
Website	ComputerAndVideoGames.com
ISSN	0261-3697

Computer And Video Games (CVG) was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom, published monthly between November 1981 and October 2004. It was one of the first publications to capitialise 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 90's had switched focus from home computers to games consoles.

Its publishers have included EMAP and Dennis Publishing Ltd.

The magazine was "suspended" in 2004 after being sold (alongside PC Zone) to Future Publishing. 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. Currently the magazine has yet to return.

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 did not previously have a formal website, such as PC Gamer.

• Terry Pratt
• Tim Metcalfe
• Eugene Lacey
• Graham Taylor
• Julian Rignall
• Tim Boone
• Paul Rand
• Mark Patterson
• Paul Davies (Voted most popular, and best looking CVG editor of all time.)^{[verification needed]}
• Alex Simmons

• Gareth Ramsay
• Patrick Garratt (2002/2003)
• Johnny Minkley (early 2004)
• Stuart Bishop (acting Ed 2004)
• John Houlihan (late 2004)
• Gavin Ogden (2006)

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• 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 is 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.
• CVG.co.uk channel editor Andy Robinson is considered the most popular member of the online team, weekly chased down the streets of his home county Essex by thrawls of beered-up Romford boys.

• ComputerAndVideoGames.com Archive of reviews from the magazine, and others by the same publishers
• CVG Archive with Page Scans at www.iqueue.co.uk