I have web site which is about freeware game called little fighter 2. URL: http://www.littlefighter.biz I only use adsense and I make around 1$/day with 8000 views. This is English site but 50% traffic is from Poland (2 months ago adsense starts to pay 3 times less than half year ago for polish traffic. You can see alexa stats here: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/littlefighter.biz Can I try CPM/other affiliate program which give me few $ per day? Or it is impossible?
I had tried others believe me, Adsense still paid the best no matter how bad that is, try to add more unique content to your site to boost the click rates I think this is the only way.
Adsense is always bad on a gaming site. Try to open a niche site with lots of content on it. You would see the change.
Ok I will add more content to this site. Also I will try to promote my site at google.com to get more visitors from USA/Canada/UK I was thinking about CPM affiliate but nobody takes my site I think.