Along with a team of writers, 1UP's Jeremy Parish has published GameSpite, an online magazine featuring long-form articles devoted to gaming, since November 2007. He recently put out GameSpite Year One, Vol. 1 (pictured), a 352-page book collecting articles from the periodical's first year running.

Parish announced that instead of releasing GameSpite's 14th issue online as usual, he's transforming the magazine into GameSpite Quarterly, now publishing articles in a print format first before posting them on his site, instead of the other way around.

"I already make a living doing online game writing for a company that has no interest in taking us into print, and this site already has lots of great content that will eventually be bundled into collected print volumes," he reasons. "So we've decided to reverse the process a little and do print first: thus, GameSpite Quarterly, Issue 1."

This change was likely influenced by January's shuttering of Electronic Gaming Monthly, as well as by the previous closings of Ziff Davis' other gaming magazines, which the 1UP editor previously wrote for.

"I really miss print," he admits. "I miss the substance of physical media, and I miss single looming deadlines, and I miss pages of content without animated roadblock-style Flash ads bordering them. No one's going to make a profit publishing a game magazine, but I realized we can do it here without a loss, and that's good enough."

GameSpite Quarterly will be modeled after Japan's niche magazine Continue, and will be purchasable through DIY-publishing site Blurb. The first issue will cover the Game Boy's 20th birthday, and will be available "by the time E3 rolls around."

You can GameSpite Quarterly's first issue cover below: