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Well there are plenty of others, LGT was my first though! http://www.gamingonlinux.com/ - daily news http://www.penguspy.com/ - a directory similair to LGT http://linuxgamecast.com/ - game videos and tutorials for linux

Less than 1% of the desktop market can't justify development for an entire alternate platform?

Maybe not, but if you plan ahead and use platform agnostic development practices porting or running on other platforms is no where near as hard as it used to be.

1% of the market might not be enough to develop a completely separate version if you're using directx, but opengl based games can be ported with very little headache with a little bit of advanced planning.

Just look at the humble bundle packs success. Sure, access to 1% of the market is not worth it but virtually assured sales to 0.5% of the market is a substantial amount of profit.

At this point, the hardest part of selling to the linux crowd is letting them know the game is compatible, and I know for a fact that most of the developers I work with will purchase a game that is linux ready just to have something to do at work while waiting on a compile.

I personally check Peguspy for new game options of a regular basis.

There's a list here of a couple dozen free (as in beer and as in speech) games for Linux, many of which are really good.

This list is just the "very best" games, regardless of whether they are free or paid, open or closed source.

One of my favorite things about that site is the ability to filter by open/closed source, free/paid, and whether or not the game has been awarded a "Pengu's Choice". There are some really solid games out there, and many of the best ones run on Linux.

Please note that PenguSpy doesn't rely on wine, like my other list of games for Linux - these games all run natively on Linux, no wine required.

There's a list here of a couple dozen free (as in beer and as in speech) games for Linux, many of which are really good.

This list is just the "very best" games, regardless of whether they are free or paid, open or closed source.

One of my favorite things about that site is the ability to filter by open/closed source, free/paid, and whether or not the game has been awarded a "Pengu's Choice". There are some really solid games out there, and many of the best ones run on Linux.

Please note that PenguSpy doesn't rely on wine, like my other list of games for Linux - these games all run natively on Linux, no wine required.

Just give me a debian build for my phone including dialer, messaging, etc..

Then I can play REAL games on my phone.. Or as real as they get in Linux!

Games aren't real on Linux? Yeah, PenguSpy and Linux Gamers don't have real games, really written for real Linux. You know, like Quake 4, Doom 3, Vendetta, and X3 - those aren't real games... oh, wait.

And nevermind that wine actually works really well, nowadays, running many top games "flawlessly, out of the box", and tons more "run flawlessly with some special configuration".

My experience with Linux Mint Debian Edition has been very positive. I too migrated from ubuntu to linux mint (because it was better), and had been wanting to migrate to the debian edition for a while, but it wasn't until the latest release a few weeks ago that I felt it was mature enough to do so.

It *is* slightly different to ubuntu, but only in a good way, and for the most part so far it has been a smooth and very refreshing experience.

As for games, the whole "Linux does not have games" mantra has been outdated for at least 2-3 years now. Linux is gaining steam (pun intended). The humble bundle alone has put linux on the games map, and most indie games run on linux these days. Many more commercial games do too, mostly through wine; the easiest solution for 'average' users at the moment being the commercial version by codeweavers. (I recently bought Limbo on steam with the intention of playing it on linux, and it was completely straightforward and ran perfectly). Desura is coming out with a linux client anyday now, and Steam is strongly rumoured to follow (and they would be crazy not to, given the lessons learnt from the humble bundle: Their usual cash distribution on the bundle was 60% Windows buyers, 20% Mac and 20% Linux). Not to mention already established things like http://lin-app.com/ and http://www.penguspy.com/ (it's beyond me why these two websites aren't more well-known among linux users ...).
The days where the "Linux Gaming" scene consisted predominantly of a bunch of developers making (well-intended but ultimately crappy) open-source games for the sake of open-source, are long-gone, but, yes, even *that* option still exists as well. Linux is close. Very close.

As for the comment that Linux Mint Debian Edition is going Gnome 3, I didn't get that impression from the announcements. In fact, the impression I got was that they'd try to go on their own look based on the classic desktop. Which is good in my opinion. So far, Linux Mint has demonstrated incredible maturity in its approach in terms of aesthetics and usability. And if somehow they mess it up (unlikely), you can always install the other big players if you want to.

Check out penguspy.com. It's got loads of games listed, and constantly being updated.

Ok, we can do eye candy also.

Try this site, it's listed by rating and by age.

Penguspy