I can understand your concerns.
At first I visited VGC for the sales, but this changed with the community. I really like the forums. You can find every news by visiting the forums, the most important and most discussed news is even on the front page.
If you want to focus more on the news, put the "most popular stories" in the centre of the front page and the "latest headlines" on the left, so that the news with pictures are in the center of this page. Thats way better than just headlines. Or you could insert 2 lines of text to each headline. I mean, just the headline alone won't do it.
I think you should "advertise" some of the great news/articles stuff better. The interview with Bungie for ODST is something other pages desperately wanted. You had it and it was on the page for 2 days... That had so much more potential.
Why don't you do a video for some stuff out there? It don't has to be big. There is a German website offering a video on a weekly basis. They just present two or three new games and talk about them for 3 minutes each.
Here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjGmKmr-Ro
This is not hard to do and it is a great feature. Even HipHopGamer talks shit for 30 minutes each week :D :D
You could also present the weekly sales in this video. That would be great, present 2 or 3 games, show the sales, show how they might change next week because of releases etc and thats it.
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...
