Ten cool small studio or independent games. Good for the industry, good for gamers. Encourages diversity across several measures.
I could plunder, steal, copy and paste and re-type the list and the links, but why don't I just point you to some people who have already written about them?
Nathaniel Poor, PhD, is a writer, researcher, and former professor of social, technological, and legal aspects of the Internet, mobiles, and electronic games. The newish phrase for part of what he does is computational social scientist.