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Fuck us. Obviously riled by IGN’s gigantic Dan Houser interview on Monday, Future’s launched a new, unprecedented assault in the Grand Theft Auto World Word War with a print-based 180-page special on the entire series, the first in a “CVG Presents” brand.
That’s the Future spirit, right there.
“I bought issue one of CVG in 1981 and I’m delighted that Future is bringing the brand back to the newsstand,” said publishing director James Binns, apparently forgetting that Future closed CVG when it bought Dennis Publishing’s games magazines in 2004. “We will be promoting CVG Presents in store, online and across the rest of our growing games portfolio. Gamers are going absolutely nuts for the release of GTA IV, and the timing of this launch couldn’t be better.”
This has to be the end of it. The only way anyone’s going to top that is by releasing a book telling everyone how good GTA is. That mag’s got to be in the 50-70,000 word region. Gav, can you do a quick word-count and pop us an email? Cheers.
(Thanks, Zumi)
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Blerk said:
Blimey. I’ve still got a big bundle of old C&VGs that my mate gave me in 1984. They were rubbish even back then!
Zumi said:
I got a message printed in CVG when I was a kid, I remember showing it to everyone, and nobody cared.
Blerk said:
I got my solution to Stormbringer for the Speccy published over two months in Your Sinclair. I still have the two “I’ve got big tips” badges that they sent me in return.
patlike said:
I edited CVG’s website. No one cared about that either
Shatner said:
I still remember Melissa Ravenflame and the Bug Hunters.
fj said:
I cared, Pat. A little bit.
patlike said:
I cared a bit too. For a bit.
morriss said:
I think we all care, it’s just that we’re men and find it hard to express our emotions.
grandmaster said:
On the one hand, closing the mag was a stupendously bad idea. On the other, the mag that was out there at the time just wasn’t any good