Gaming seems like fads as the gaming industry changes all the time. Do any of you see these as long term or just a quick in and out? Any other ideas of what is hot right now?
Forums based around a single game, if it is a console game, could make a great quick in-and-out opportunity to make a few bucks quickly. However, you can then daisy-chain the traffic from such a forum, bringing up another forum for the next "fad" game and channeling the traffic there and so on.
With gaming forums, you are also targetting a very active Internet demographic (adolescent/young adults) so many promotion options are available (MySpace etc.)