Niche Website with link lists

So I am creating a website in the online games niche that will contain lists of best guides,reviews,videos, informational websites..
I have the traffic source covered, hosting, design, domain, list of links...

Now I have 3 questions:

• How does ranking go? If I don't actually have any content but rather just links with tittles, if i have quality backlinks will the pages with links rank on google?
• Should I put something like adfly or linkbucks on the links? Is it worth wasting time, and potential returning visitors on that?
• Recommend monetization methods, should I stick with ads? PopUps when clicking a link? CPA? G2A?

Thanks for saving my life, yet again BHW.

G2A + Adsense is the way to go with gaming niche, CPA will convert good in some cases, but if you grow that website in to authority website stick with adsense and G2A

But adsense is not an option I guess, when you don't have any unique articles.
You are delivering right information to the audience, but you are not actually providing anything yourself, can someone confirm that adsense will get this kind of website approved?

I makedonec sum by the way

Is it legal to use G2A with a website which is registered on your name? Heard that G2A has a lot of illegal sources for the games (creditcard fraud). So if you advertise this I am wondering if this is okay?

I don't see how you will get into trouble advertising a company as G2A, And gaming company's actually love companies like this because in the end of the day, it just brings more players to their games.

EDIT: Just realized you were talking about credit card fraud, but thats just nonsense, thats like talking don't adverse paypal because a lot people are using it to withdrew money from stolen credit cards.