I like the general idea you've got here, Pick of the Week and Hack of the Month seem like they could work for a while (assuming quality hacks continue to be released) so I don't imagine you'll have much difficult at least keeping up with that during the year.
The section I really like the most is Tip of the Week. On top of those small changes from the R&D thread, I would also like to see some small tutorials or how-to's there as well. For example, something that I've always wanted to see but doesn't seem big enough to warrant a thread would be "how to map using FireRed's trees" as a number of people don't utilize the tiles with shadows alongside the shadowless tree tiles correctly.
