The Dude That Games Let's Game Blog

  My Podcast Turns One!    For a whole entire year, I have been making Podcasts episodes, and July 31st marks my first-year anniversary of my podcast! Since today is July 31st, I released a special podcast episode! In this episode I will be ranking my top 10 games. Spotify Stats as of July 31st of 2026    After a whole entire year, I have gained 19 followers on Spotify alone! That may not seem like a lot but for my first year I find it a good number of followers. For my podcast I have gotten 866 plays and downloads! I find this a really great achievement for my first year! I thank you all you have helped me achieve this!     My Origin Story    On June 18th of 2025 I watched one of the best Nintendo Directs ever made; Donkey Kong Bananza! After seeing this direct I decided to start listening to Nintendo podcasts while waiting for Bananza to come out. After listening to quite a couple different podcasts I felt inspired and started to think...

 My Donkey Kong Lore Timeline Spoilers for Donkey Kong Games and Punchout for the Wii    One year ago, Nintendo on this day (7.17.26) released Donkey Kong Bananza! But this game also made Donkey Kong lore so confusing because of PAULINE!!! Do not fear because I have solved the Donkey Kong Lore! Beginning    This timeline starts in 1981, when a game called Donkey Kong released. A girl named Lady was kidnapped by a big gorilla named Donkey Kong who would later be named Cranky Kong. During this event a normal carpenter named Jumpman came to the rescue to save Lady!    After this Jumpman captured Donkey Kong and made him a circus animal. Then our next protagonist Donkey Kong jr. had to face the mean Jumpman. After defeating Jumpman DK jr. freed his father! Then his father got in trouble again with a man named Stanley.    Years later DK jr. moved to the city and left Donkey Kong the 3rd to his grandfather whose name went from Donkey Kong to Cranky...

Mobile Game Mario Kart Tours is Going Down    On July 8th of 2026 Nintendo tweeted out that they will be shutting down Mario Kart World Tour! After 7 years this game will be coming to an end. All the money people put into this game will be going down the drain. Just to think last week I was thinking of downloading this game! Service for the Mario Kart Tour game ends on Sept. 29 at 11:00 p.m. PT / Sept. 30 at 8:00 a.m. CEST. Thank you for your support throughout the years. For info on how rubies and the Mario Kart Tour Gold Pass will be handled moving forward, see in-game notifications or FAQ below. — Mario Kart Tour (@mariokarttourEN) July 8, 2026       This shutdown is outrageous, I mean like think about all the people who spent numerous of dollars on this game. This game has made over 200 million dollars according to Sensor Tower. Just to think this game has no ads so the only way Nintendo was able to make money off this game was by people paying for in-game i...

Yoshi & the Mysterious Books gets a Demo!    Are you unsure if you should get Yoshi and the Mysterious Book? Do you think Yoshi and the Mysterious book looks too much like a baby's game? Well, now you can answer these questions for yourself because Nintendo just released a demo for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book!    From what I have read on Metacritic this game is better than it looks, gameplaywise; that it is not just a baby's first game. The point where Nintendo failed on this was the advertising. If you look at the video above, they make this game really seem like baby's game. I have also heard from Metacritic that this game is more of a puzzle game than a platformer.    I will probably tryout this demo at some point because I have not bought the game yet. I have bought it yet because it hasn't really sparked my interest, and I also don't really want to waste my money being a full price game and all. Tell me what you think of this game in the comment...

 Mario Kart Gets New Races!    After a whole entire year since Mario Kart World's release, we finally get new racing routes! In this free update we got two new racing routes for the Knockout Tours! But that's not all we got; we also got a new update for the photo mode! New Routes!    So far, we have gotten two new routes; the Drill Rally and the Boomerang Rally! These routes are for the Knockout tour mode. If you're not happy with only two new routes and think that they should've added more. Don't fear because we have confirmation that in the future, we will be getting at least six more routes! We have no idea what the future routes are or what courses will be featured in the newer routes. Drill Rally    This rally is a knockout tour race that features the drill mushroom from Mario Wonder as its racing emblem. This race starts from Wario's Shipyard and ends at Bowser's Castle. This route also has one of my personal favorites; DK pass! There is also Dry...