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I have ordered these by popularity, as near as I can estimate. Some of the lower ones on the lists might not be as mainstream as you would like, but the top ones definitely are.

mainstream linux-native...

RPGs:
Neverwinter Nights
BG/IWD/BG2 some day when GemRB is finished

MMORPGs:
Second Life
Puzzle Pirates
Runescape
A Tale in the Desert
Daimonin
Vega Strike
Vendetta Online

RTSes:
Homeworld
Total Annihilation: Spring
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Majesty Gold
Myth 2

and more FPSes:
Quake 3
America's Army
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Medal of Honor: AA
Descent 3
Descent Freespace 2
Postal 2
Serious Sam 2
Sin

I admit, this is but a fraction of the games that run in Windows, but I think this list, plus the cutting edge games that are coming to Linux soon, proves that there is nothing holding back Linux gaming except game developers simply ignoring it during development.

The sad thing is that supporting Linux wouldn't cost them much, if anything at all. Most games are successfully ported to Linux (often using SDL+OpenGL) within weeks, if not days, of having their source code liberated. Usually by a handful of enthusiastic hobbyists in their spare time. Any game company willing to dedicate those same few dozen man hours could increase their player base by at least a few hundred (I don't delude myself into thinking there are many hard core native linux gamers), which seems well worth it to me.

Here's a few "Good" open source games. There are quite a few others out there. Sure, there may not be UberLeetHardcoreGamerOrgyOfTheMonth, but there are high quality ones out there if you look, plus Opensource ports of many classic games (not listed)

Planet Penguin Racing- http://projects.planetpenguin.de/
FlightGear- http://www.flightgear.org/
Armagetron - http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Vega Strike (see also the WC Privateer remake)- http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Frozen Bubble-
      http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
      Live java version- http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

Quake 3 - http://liberatedgames.org/game.php?game_id=90
Scorched3D - http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
ChromiumBSU - http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

This is just what I could think of in a few minutes- There is a really great 3d Nascar style game on the Suse 9.2 DVD, but I can't remember it's name while I'm at work.

Please submit any source ports to Liberated Games ( http://liberatedgames.org/ ). Thanks.

http://www.gameogre.com/
http://www.liberatedgames.org/
The stories don't appear to even have links to the sites they are talking about!

www.liberatedgames.org
crisis averted
*bows*