Ok - another random idea by the quaelgeist...
What about small, gaming related online shops? For example, here in Austria we have
www.gameware.at or
www.gamesonly.at which distribute games and gaming related hardware through the internet and provide News and Forums for their customers on their websites. As far as i know their staff are avid gamers themselves.
I think an email from an Admin / Mod of this forum here could produce some results?
And then - i used the search function but couldn´t find something about the german gaming websites
www.gamestar.de www.gamepro.de and
www.pcgames.de so far. They seam even more heavily into providing news for their visitors on their starting pages than ign or gamespot. They could be interested too...