Ask HN: How to monetize we website with 80.000 page views per month

The website in question is <a href="http://gamers-lab.com" >gamers-lab.com</a> It's a portal for system requirements and release dates for games. Currently, a friend works on it as a hobby and gets $40 - $50 per month from Google Adsense.

Traffic related, it's been growing organically (and linear), comes from search mostly and currently it's around 80.000 page views per month.

There's a little bit of extra functionality besides the standard listing of system requirements and release dates: - possibility to create an account on the site (http://www.gamers-lab.com/register/) - once you create an account you can enter your gaming system (processor, video card, etc) and based on it you get a "You can run this game" feedback when you visit a game.

So where to go from here? Some ideas we had: - affiliate sales for games (we actually tried this but it didn't work) - subscribe to notifications for new games when they get released (to increase user retention and traffic) - payed members? Perhaps $5 per year. Not sure what to offer for this to be worth for the users.

Any feedback is more then welcomed. Thank you.