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Games: SuperTuxKart Evolution and New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients
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SuperTuxKart Evolution: Karting without a hitch
Physics in SuperTuxKart are a careful mix between realistic elements and gameplay elements to smooth the experience and avoid many of the ways the kart could get completely out of control. Kart racers are all about doing crazy jumps and flying around corners without having to worry if the vehicle will suddenly flip and tumble.
I began contributing to the game during 1.0’s development and I remember well the work to fix a physics issue present in 0.9.3 that sometimes led to uncontrollable karts floating on downward slopes.
When STK 1.0 came out, it already had many years of fine-tuning behind it, delivering a satisfying experience in most situations.
In this blog post, I’m going to present many changes that have been done for SuperTuxKart Evolution to further enhance how the kart behaves: a major redesign of collisions between karts, aligning the obtention of collectibles with visible contact, changes to jumps, as well as subtler improvements.
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Marvel Cosmic Invasion - 2025-12-03 Edition
Between 2025-11-26 and 2025-12-03 there were 65 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 637 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 10.2 % of total released titles. One of the highlights of the past week is Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a beat’em up with 15 Marvel heroes to choose from! Careful though, the game is rumored to be quite short, so it may be worth waiting for a sale…