GTA 6 finally has a worthy challenger for its November release date

Now this is some counter programming I can get behind Over the past two weeks, we’ve gotten a metric ton of fall video game release dates. Almost none of those games will land in November, though. Publishers are steering clear of Grand Theft Auto 6’s Nov. 19 release date, slotting their games into a very crowded September and even more-crowded October instead. It’s going to take a specific breed of monster to take on GTA, but Atari knows just the guy for the job: Godzilla. In this year’s best bit of counter programming, Atari will release Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered on Nov. 3. It’s currently one of the only games with a November 2026 release date, and you know what? Hell yeah, brother. I went hands-on with the remaster at Summer Game Fest and rediscovered a forgotten game that kicks all kinds of ass. Who cares about exploring a photorealistic city when you can reduce one to rubble while piledriving King Ghidorah into the ground instead? If you’re not familiar with it — and I can’t blame you if you aren’t — Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee was a GameCube-exclusive kaiju fighting game released in 2002. It wasn’t a critical hit at the time, but it became a bit