Video game news digest: Monday, November 9, 2026

A quiet Sunday: Epic wants its new launcher on SteamOS, speedrunners are already tearing apart the Ocarina of Time remake, and El Shaddai turns into a Reversi game on PC.

Epic is targeting SteamOS with its new launcher

Epic Games plans to support SteamOS, the Steam Deck's operating system, with the new version of its launcher. Communications director Jake Jones named SteamOS alongside Fedora, CachyOS and Omarchy among the Linux distributions Epic is aiming for, The Verge reports. Back in October, SteamOS was not among the systems supported by the launcher, which is still in preview. Epic has not given a date.

Speedrunners are already breaking Ocarina of Time on Switch 2

Released on Thursday, November 5, the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had speedrunners hunting for exploits by its first weekend. Most early tricks revolve around this version's new jump: stand in an open chest, then move at the right moment or drop a bomb in it, and Link gets launched sky-high, according to IGN and Kotaku. Switching items in the inventory mid-air also lets Link jump endlessly, which speedrunner ORCinfo expects to shake up records. Everything else the remake changes, from sprinting to humming songs into the console's microphone, is on our game page.

El Shaddai becomes a Reversi game on PC

El Shaddai: Zero Nine Reversi came out on Sunday, November 8, on Steam for PC and Mac, developed and published by crim. Every stone has between 0 and 9 hit points: a flipped stone loses one, and vanishes from the board once it runs out. In solo play, earning rank points unlocks more than 40 stories about angels and fallen angels, while online each character brings a unique ability. It sells for €4.15 in Europe and $3.99 in the US.