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IGN.com - News Edit Unfollow A YouTuber Turned a Toilet Into a Gaming PC by Billy Givens Aug 2, 2022 Look, we've all stumbled upon some wacky stuff when making our way down the YouTube rabbit hole, but few of us ever expected to come across a functional toilet that also contains a gaming PC built into its tank. And yet here we are in 2022 at the peak of humanity's technological achievements. As noticed by Eurogamer, YouTuber Basically Homeless has gone through the unusual but utterly captivating process of building a gaming PC into a custom toilet tank. And while any PC in a toilet is notable, he figured it was worth opting for a moderately powerful "12700 & 3060" option while he was at it. It's fair, of course, because if you can't play the newest games on your pooper, why even bother, right? Not content with mobile or handheld gaming while doing his business, Basically Homeless set off on his journey to 120hz toilet gaming by building a wall within the toilet's tank using plexiglass, allowing for a much-needed barrier between the PC components and water. Though it failed on his first attempt, a healthy amount of Flexseal seems to have gotten the job done. Other modifications include spots cut out on the top of the tank for a cooling fan and on the front of the tank for showing off all of his hard work. He even went so far as to add RGB lighting to keep with traditional expectations. It's all as staggeringly impressive as it is odd. Basically Homeless stated that building the gaming toilet also allowed him to learn more about plumbing than he'd ever expected, so he was able to gain some valuable skills along the way. But most importantly, he seemed to thoroughly enjoy the process of building the gaming toilet, and he's certain to equally enjoy flushing away the competition during his, uh, gaming sessions. Billy Givens is a freelancer at IGN with over a decade of experience writing gaming, film, and tech content. His work can also be found on GameSpot, USA Today, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, and more. You'll find him blabbering on about video games and more on Twitter at @mektige. Continue Reading Elden Ring Had One of the Biggest Game Launches on YouTube, Ever by Joe Skrebels Aug 2, 2022 In its first 60 days of release, Elden Ring became one of YouTube's biggest ever gaming launches, seeing well over 3 billion combined video views. In stats shared exclusively with IGN, Elden Ring saw 3.4 billion views in the two months after launch, dwarfing the next name on the list, GTA 5 on 1.9 billion. Of course, YouTube has grown since GTA's launch in 2013, making that something of an unfair comparison – but the far more recent Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) saw 1.4 billion, so it's clear quite how successful Elden Ring has been. YouTube Gaming stops short of calling it the biggest gaming launch ever, but it's clear that FromSoftware's open world masterpiece has set an incredibly high bar for games on YouTube in the future. In large part, that's down to the hunger for different kinds of video about the game, from Let's plays, to guides, to lore explainers. YouTube Gaming also provided a list of other stats around the biggest launch videos for Elden Ring: Most Viewed launch videos: CoryxKenshin - Elden Ring is Rage Game of 2022 (6.2M views) AshesWolf- Elden Ring - MAX LEVEL 713 VS Bosses Gameplay (5.7M views) Boomstick Gaming - ELDEN RING | Get “Overpowered” At The Very Start (5.3M views) Joel Haver - Elden Ring from the NPC’s Perspective (5M views) JackSepticEye - Best Game In The Last 5 Years (4.8M views) Channels with the most Elden Ring launch views: RageGamingVideos (946K subscribers) with 71.6M views FightinCowboy (1.07M subscribers) with 39.6M views Arekkz Gaming (1.29M subscribers) with 39M views Content Type Breakdown: VOD - 71.3% Livestreams - 25.98% Shorts - 2.72% Uploads By Bosses (descending order) Margit, The Fell Omen Malenia Blade of Miquella Godrick the Grafted Starscourge Radahn Draconic Tree Sentinel Uploads by Character Class (descending order) Samurai Hero Wretch Astrologer Warrior YouTube Gaming also called out some of the Elden Ring community's best-known creators with 'Elden Lord Awards': VaatiVidya (2.27M subscribers) - Lore Specialist Fextralife (574K subscribers) - All-Knowing Guide Distortion2 (313K subscribers) - Bloodhound Stepper Zullie the Witch (439K subscribers) - Soulsborne Scholar RichaadEB (568K subscribers) - Tarnished Tunemaker Finally, the team also acknowledged perhaps Elden Ring's best-known hero, Let Me Solo Her – the player that took on the game's hardest boss more than a thousand times, and earned a real-life sword for their efforts. According to YouTube Gaming, videos featuring Let Me Solo Her have accrued over 25 million views alone. All of this is yet more proof of Elden Ring's status as a true gaming phenomenon. It quickly became one of the fastest-selling games in recent history in both the US and Europe, one of Steam's most played games by concurrent players, and one of the best reviewed games in modern history. We called it a masterpiece in our 10/10 review, saying it "can easily be held amongst the best open-world games I’ve ever played. Like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild before it, Elden Ring is one that we’ll be looking back on as a game that moved a genre forward." Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Continue Reading

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