{"id":84135,"date":"2026-06-08T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84135"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:38:09","slug":"gta-6-gets-its-barbenheimer-as-barbie-compilation-sets-a-november-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84135","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Gets Its Barbenheimer As Barbie Compilation Sets A November Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So many game publishers are trying to get their titles out of the shadow of Grand Theft Auto 6, leading to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/september-2026-is-packed-with-games-trying-to-avoid-gta-6\/\">comically crowded September this year<\/a>. But Atari isn&#8217;t blinking, releasing&#8211;of all things&#8211;a collection of classic Barbie games exactly a week before Rockstar&#8217;s behemoth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developed by Digital Eclipse, Barbie Rewind is a compilation of 16 Barbie games released between 1991 and 2007. It&#8217;s out on November 12 on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, and both Nintendo Switch platforms. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/now-you-can-beat-gta-6-answers-out-of-the-take-two-boss-in-wwe-2k26\/\">Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick<\/a> is presumably shaking in his boots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full list of included titles hasn&#8217;t been revealed yet, but one of the announced games is the previously unreleased Barbie: Vacation Adventure, giving the collection a sort of Star Fox 2 moment.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z1DFzLE90tA?si=L95XvX6cOBs2r_GL  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barbie Rewind isn&#8217;t the only Atari release on GTA 6&#8217;s month&#8211;the company is also putting out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uX2wMFS0S5A\">remastered version of Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee<\/a> on all modern platforms on November 3, 16 days before GTA launches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remasters and retro compilations are relatively low-key releases compared to modern blockbuster games, so it&#8217;s doubtful that Atari wants the attention that other big game companies fear losing to GTA 6. On the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many game publishers are trying to get their titles out of the shadow of Grand Theft Auto 6, leading to a comically crowded September this year. But Atari isn&#8217;t blinking, releasing&#8211;of all things&#8211;a collection of classic Barbie games exactly a week before Rockstar&#8217;s behemoth. Developed by Digital Eclipse, Barbie Rewind is a compilation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":84137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84138,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84135\/revisions\/84138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}