Gaming Blog RPM? profitable?

In 2022, is a blog on the video game niche profitable? Like how much AdSense pays per 1k impressions from tier 1 countries?

The way I see it is gamers are tech savvy, they have all the flashy GPUs, mobos, CPUs, etc and as they are tech savvy they will DEFINITELY use adblocker, and maybe some have options of using adblockers on mobile too and they mostly won't click ads.

Google's own https://www.google.com/adsense/start/#calculator shows blogs with 50k visitors/month from the USA will make around $2.6k


Anyone running a gaming niche blog? How are your ad network earnings?

I'm absolutely not an expert but was trying to collect RPM datas lately, their calculator seems a joke to me. Like you have to divide by 10 to 50...

In this niche it's better to use affiliate links for gaming-specific products rather than relying on Adsense alone. If you write about hardware, you can put Newegg/Amazon links to products. Or put Gog affiliate links for games you review.