Would this laptop be good for gaming?

I would think ok for low to mid range games. Limiting factor is the lower end 730m video card

May I suggest you better gaming laptop in the same price range?

The laptop on BestBuy has middle class "NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M" graphics card, which will play games at low to medium settings. See specs at http://www.notebookcheck.net/...681.0.html
Scroll down to "Game Benchmarks" to view list of playable games

Consider Lenovo Y50 15.6" Gaming Laptop
http://www.amazon.com/...00K6ZIMPE/
This laptop has upper mid-range "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M" graphics card, which will play games at high to ultra settings. See specs at http://www.notebookcheck.net/...794.0.html
This laptop costs $90 extra, but performs better at gaming

The 730m would still run minecraft pretty well. Aswell as tf2, css etc. Plus the core i7 is decent.

Best Buy has an MSI gaming laptop for $100 less than that with way better specs. TBH if you're planning on getting an $800 to $900 "standard" laptop for gaming, you should just go with an affordable "gaming" laptop within the same price range.

How I see it, is that you're beating a dead horse. Essentially getting a laptop that would probably reduce its "lifespan" by trying to run probably graphic/RAM intensive games, when you can get a computer set up with all the needed parts for roughly the same price range, while still reaping the benefits of the standard laptop (word processing, web browsing, etc etc).

Unless you're planning to play low-budget games like Minecraft (not saying that MC is a sh*t game, its that it is a game that can run on low-budget computers) and only low-budget games, then I'd go with the unit you linked.

Here:
http://www.bestbuy.com/...Id=8754893

The only "major" downside is the lack of a CD/DVD slot, though it's not a serious problem as you'll be able to get most games online through things like EA's Origin or Valve's STEAM clients, usually those would have games that have previously released on CD. And with most other games being released in digital form and very few released in physical, its not an issue.

Only way I can see it being an issue is if you wanted to burn a CD for music (which by the way, wouldn't mean much since 90% of the internet community would either pirate the songs or get them off digital stores like iTunes) or to watch movies (where pirating or Hulu/Netflix come in). As for file transfers, you can just use a USB device like a thumb drive/flash drive or an old computer to burn and copy off with the aforementioned USB device.