{"id":88605,"date":"2026-08-31T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88605"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:36:31","slug":"godzilla-destroy-all-monsters-melee-remastered-dev-says-gta-6-was-never-part-of-our-thinking-when-choosing-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88605","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered Dev Says GTA 6 Was &#8216;Never Part of Our Thinking&#8217; When Choosing a Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/godzilla-destroy-all-monsters-melee-remastered\">Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered<\/a> will take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-vi\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> when both games launch this November, but the team behind the arena fighter said Rockstar&#8217;s latest title was &#8220;never part of our thinking&#8221; when choosing a release date.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, GTA 6 comes out November 19, a choice that prompted a wave of other publishers to do everything they can to <em>not <\/em>launch their games anywhere near that date. The belief is the fallout from a game 13 years in the making will consume the weeks before and after its release, but Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered has emerged as one of the very, very few titles willing to brave the storm.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"godzilla-destroy-all-monsters-melee-remastered-official-announce-trailer-ign-live-2026\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>GTA 6 is indeed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/rockstar-says-gta-6-will-be-the-largest-game-launch-in-history\">primed for<\/a> an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-vi-the-billion-dollar-behemoth-that-could-crash-the-industry\">explosive launch<\/a>, but the team at developer Pipeworks and publisher Atari haven&#8217;t seemed too worried about how this could affect the remaster for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/godzilla-destroy-all-monsters-melee\">a 2000s classic<\/a>. In fact, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/godzilla-destroy-all-monsters-melee-remastered-leak-reveals-november-release-date\">revealing their November 3 release date<\/a>, the internet rallied behind the kaiju fighting game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/only-2-games-are-brave-enough-to-go-up-against-the-might-of-gta-6-this-november\">filling feeds with memes<\/a> as the King of the Monsters (and the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/barbie-rewind\">Barbie Rewind<\/a>) stomped forward.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a sweeping interview about the new remaster, IGN asked longtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered will take on Grand Theft Auto 6 when both games launch this November, but the team behind the arena fighter said Rockstar&#8217;s latest title was &#8220;never part of our thinking&#8221; when choosing a release date. In case you haven&#8217;t heard, GTA 6 comes out November 19, a choice that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":88607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88605","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\/88605"}],"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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88609,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88605\/revisions\/88609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}