OutsideXbox

The following people are part of OutsideXbox and its associated channels:

Editors:

• Andy Farrant – OutsideXbox {{small|(2012–present)}}
• Jane Douglas – OutsideXbox {{small|(2012–present)}}
• Mike Channell – OutsideXbox {{small|(2012–present)}}
• Ellen Rose – Outside Xtra {{small|(2016–present)}}
• Luke Westaway – Outside Xtra {{small|(2016–2024)}}

Producers:

• James Hills – video producer{{Cite web |title=EscherMedia |url=https://twitter.com/eschermedia |access-date=2021-05-06 |website=Twitter |language=en}}
• Jon Garnham – video producer{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Garnham - Video Producer - Outside Xbox |url=https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-garnham-b514b643 |access-date=6 May 2021 |website=LinkedIn}}
• Zack Fortais-Gomm – producer (Oxventure)

Series regulars:

• Johnny Chiodini – Dungeon Master and role-player {{small|(2017–present)}}
• Luke Westaway – role-player {{small|(2024–present)}}

OutsideXbox was launched in 2012 by the then EuroGamer Network (now Gamer Network) as a website focused on Xbox gaming and its community. The founding members all had previous games journalism experience: Andy Farrant was part of Inside Xbox in Europe; Jane Douglas was working with GameSpot; and Mike Channell previously worked for the magazine PC Format and was the UK deputy editor of the Official Xbox Magazine.{{Cite web |last=Bramwell |first=Tom |date=2012-08-15 |title=Eurogamer welcomes Outside Xbox to the family |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-15-eurogamer-welcomes-outside-xbox-to-the-family |access-date=2021-05-06 |website=Eurogamer |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Outside Xbox |url=https://www.outsidexbox.com/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=www.outsidexbox.com}} The group expanded in 2016 to include a second channel, Outside Xtra, to cover the wider games industry beyond Xbox.{{Cite web |last=Welsh |first=Oli |date=2016-10-19 |title=Outside Xbox branches out with new channel Outside Xtra |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-19-outside-xbox-branches-out-with-new-channel-oustide-xtra |access-date=2021-07-08 |website=Eurogamer |language=en}} New members included Luke Westaway, previously a CNET senior editor and contributor to Nintendo Life; and Ellen Rose, who worked for Attention Seekers' official Xbox channel Xbox On.{{Cite web |date=19 October 2016 |title=Outside Xbox launches multi-platform channel, expands team |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-10-19-outside-xbox-launches-multi-platform-channel-expands-team |access-date=2021-05-06 |website=GamesIndustry.biz |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Outside Xtra |url=https://www.outsidextra.com/ |access-date=2021-05-06 |website=www.outsidextra.com}}{{Cite web |date=2016-10-19 |title=Outside Xbox expands, launches new channel to cover other platforms |url=https://www.vg247.com/2016/10/19/outside-xbox-expands-launches-new-channel-to-cover-other-platforms/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=VG247 |language=en-US}}

Outside Xbox reached one million subscribers in July 2015.{{Cite web |date=2015-07-09 |title=1 Million Subscribers! Many, Many Thanks From Outside Xbox|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9t-Zx6oLlY|access-date=2023-12-28 |website=YouTube}}

In February 2018, OutsideXbox and the rest of the Gamer Network, was acquired by ReedPOP, a subsidiary of RELX Group.{{Cite web |last=Frank |first=Allegra |date=2018-02-26 |title=PAX organizer acquires USgamer, Eurogamer and more |url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/26/17053662/reedpop-gamer-network-owner |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Polygon |language=en-US}} In 2019, Douglas was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in the UK games industry for her work at OutsideXbox.{{Cite web |date=5 April 2019 |title=Meet 100 of the most influential women working in the UK games industry: F–J |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/top100/2019/f-j |access-date=2021-06-05 |website=GamesIndustry.biz |language=en}}

On 24 June 2021, Hitman 3 released featured contracts on the Dartmoor map curated by Farrant, Douglas and Channell focused on stealth, poison and explosions. This was part of the game's Season 3 Seven Deadly Sins DLC content, specifically Act 3: Season of Sloth.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Chill Out with Hitman 3 Season of Sloth |url=https://www.player.one/chill-out-hitman-3-season-sloth-140787 |access-date=2021-07-08 |website=Player.One |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Hitman 3 – Season of Sloth Trailer Details New Escalation, Elusive Target, Featured Contracts, and More |url=https://gamingbolt.com/hitman-3-season-of-sloth-trailer-details-new-escalation-elusive-target-featured-contracts-and-more |access-date=2021-07-08 |website=GamingBolt |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2021-06-16 |title=Hitman 3 Season of Sloth Begins with a Chilling Take on Dartmoor |url=https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/06/16/hitman-3-season-of-sloth/ |access-date=2021-07-08 |website=PlayStation LifeStyle}}

Douglas made cameo appearances as a Sixer in Ready Player One and a scientist in Jurassic World: Dominion.{{Cite instagram |user=penny_dreadful |postid=https://www.instagram.com/p/BW4OKc6F_po/ |title= I was an extra on ready player one, witness the judge dredd-esque chin acting |date=23 July 2017}}{{Cite instagram |user=penny_dreadful |postid=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf9uG7iqB73 |title= doing a science in the background of jurassic world dominion 👩🏻‍🔬 ilu laura dern xxx |date=14 July 2022}}

Outside Xtra reached one million subscribers in June 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-14 |title=1 Million Subscribers to Outside Xtra?! Our Best Moments (So Far)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvthrOoLv-4|access-date=2023-12-28 |website=YouTube}} Westaway announced his departure from the channel on 10 April 2024, with his final video airing on 3 May, though he continues to appear regularly on the Oxventure channel. The Gamer Network was acquired by IGN, a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, in May 2024.{{Cite web |last=Webster |first=Andrew |date=2024-05-21 |title=IGN scoops up Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and more |url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161718/ign-gamer-network-acquisition |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=The Verge |language=en}}

File:The Oxventurers Guild at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (03).jpg

Both OutsideXbox channels began the Oxventure Dungeons & Dragons campaign in 2017, with Johnny Chiodini as Dungeon Master.{{Cite web |last=Burton |first=Bonnie |title=Dungeons & Dragons game masters score their own tribute song |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/dungeons-and-dragons-game-masters-score-tribute-song/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=CNET |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-06 |title=Every Tabletop & Video Game Panel At NYCC 2020: How & When To Watch |url=https://screenrant.com/nycc-2020-video-game-panels-how-when-watch/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=ScreenRant |language=en-US}} The Oxventure began a podcast in August 2020 hosted by Jane Douglas to replay old D&D sessions and chat with other members of OutsideXbox.{{Cite web |title=Oxventure - A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oxventure-a-dungeons-dragons-podcast/id1528568221 |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=Apple Podcasts |language=en-US}} At New York Comic Con x MCM Metaverse 2020, the Oxventure did three virtual sessions of the TTRPG [http://www.onesevendesign.com/laserfeelings/ Lasers & Feelings] on 14 August 2020, 10 October 2020 and 11 June 2021.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-07 |title=NYCC x MCM Metaverse: Your Digital Destination for Dungeons & Dragons |url=https://www.findthemetaverse.com/gaming/nycc-mcm-metaverse-digital-destination-for-dungeons-dragons |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=New York Comic Con x MCM Comic Con Metaverse |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=OutsideXbox |title=coming next Friday |url=https://twitter.com/outsidexbox/status/1291485604878876672 |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=Twitter |language=en}} On 8 January 2021, the Oxventure began a Blades in the Dark series, DM'd by Westaway.{{Cite web |last=Outside Xbox |date=8 January 2021 |title=Coming today! Oxventure presents Blades in the Dark |url=https://www.facebook.com/OutsideXbox/videos/coming-today-oxventure-presents-blades-in-the-dark/838617923375058/ |access-date=7 May 2021 |website=Facebook}}

The Oxventure released a Dungeons & Dragons appreciation music video and single "Literally Everyone Else in the World" on 27 November 2019. It also had elements reflecting the upcoming Christmas holiday.{{Cite web |last=OutsideXbox |title=Join Oxventure for the premiere of the music video for the Oxventurers Guild charity single Literally Everyone Else in the World, live in 30 minutes! |url=https://twitter.com/outsidexbox/status/1199727185893974018 |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=Twitter |language=en}} The song's title is a reference to a Dungeon Master's role of being responsible for all NPC's in a fictional world, combined with DM Johnny Chiodini's introduction for themself to the audience.{{Cite web |title=Outside Xbox charity single raises money for UK charity Mind |url=https://www.greenmangaming.com/newsroom/2019/11/29/outside-xbox-charity-single-raises-money-for-uk-charity-mind/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=www.greenmangaming.com}} Luke Westaway and Andy Farrant wrote the single, with Farrant playing bass guitar for the track. Vocals were provided by all five Outside Xbox and Xtra editors, with CNET editor Andrew Hoyle on the drum. All proceeds from the single and its live-streamed premiere were donated to the UK mental health charity Mind.{{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Tom |date=2019-11-28 |title=Our friends at Oxventure have a brilliant charity single to raise money for Mind |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-28-our-friends-at-oxventure-have-a-brilliant-charity-single |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=Eurogamer |language=en}}

In 2022, OutsideXbox advertised that it was looking to hire a new producer with the aim of developing its Oxventure brand, hiring Zack Fortais-Gomm and in September that year the Oxventure was relaunched under its own dedicated YouTube channel 'Oxventure', moving all previously uploaded Oxventure videos to it and beginning a new season titled Legacy of Dragons. While Dungeons & Dragons remains the focus of Oxventure, it has continued to expand its scope to other TTRPGs such as Deadlands which received a full series under the banner 'Oxventure Presents' in the summer of 2023, as well as a number of other games through their 'One Shot Wonder' series.

The channel's flagship series featuring Johnny Chiodini as the Dungeon Master and the other members as the Oxventurers, premiered in September 2017. The final season, simply called "The Final Season", concluded in May 2024. In the series, Farrant plays as Corazón de Ballena, a rogueish pirate and arcane trickster with a cursed secret, Douglas portrays Prudence, a tiefling warlock serving Cthulhu who was abandoned by her parents, Rose plays as Merilwen, a wood elf druid with a love of animals and nature, Westaway plays as Dob, a half-orc bard initially searching for his long-lost sister, and Channell portrays Egbert the Careless, a dragonborn paladin who is seeking atonement for an unspecified crime.

File:Andy Farrant as Corazón de Ballena at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (02).jpg

File:Jane Douglas as Prudence the Tiefling Warlock at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (02).jpg

File:Mike Channell as Egbert the Careless the Dragonborn Paladin at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (02).jpg

File:Luke Westaway as Dob the Half-Orc Bard at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (11).jpg

File:Ellen Rose as Merilwen the Wood-Elf Druid at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (06).jpg

File:Johnny Chiodini (dressed as Harrier Du Bois) at MCM Comic Con - London, England 2023-10-28 (03).jpg

Following the conclusion of the flagship Dungeons & Dragons series, Oxventure launched Wyrdwood, a new campaign created by Chiodini based on English folklore and folk horror media. The first season debuted on 13 September 2024 and concluded on 1 November 2024. In the series, Rose plays as Cressida Blackwater, a snobbish and shrewd banker and human/elf wizard, Westaway plays Happen, a human ranger who belongs to a cult that worships Cadence the Goddess of Luck, Channell plays as Lug, a kind and knowledgeable firbolg barbarian, Douglas plays Willowfine, an aasimar cleric and healer, and Farrant plays the dual roles of Robin Oatcake, a young and unremarkable human commoner, and Morven Hellwain, an impatient and powerful aberrant sorcerer who possesses Robin's body and takes control whenever he is asleep or knocked unconscious.

The channel's Blades in the Dark campaign featured Luke Westaway as the Game Master and premiered in January 2021, ending in May and was followed by a Christmas special later in December. A second season began in July 2022 and concluded in September. Within the series, Channell plays as Barnaby Fortescue, a wealthy aristocrat, Farrant portrays Edvard Lumiere, a brilliant inventor, Chiodini plays as Kasimir Jones, a career criminal, Rose portrays Lilith Capellinaga, a scholar of ghosts and the supernatural, and Douglas plays Zillah Bruzaud, a former prize-fighter with a family to support.

The channel's Deadlands campaign featured Andy Farrant as The Marshal and premiered in July 2023, concluding its first season in October. In the series, Douglas plays as Garnet Munro, a huckster card dealer turned demon hunter, Westaway portrays Delacy, a 13-year-old farmboy with a large, ornate gun named Rooster, Rose plays Edie Valentine, a saloon girl who works as a mercenary when money gets tight, Channel plays Silas Flint, a disillusioned lawman with a crippling fear of horses, and Chiodini portrays Nate Janssen, an elderly gravedigger traveling the rails. The first season focuses on the five "wild cards" coming together to answer a help wanted ad from a mysterious woman. The second season premiered on 21 March 2025.

These special episodes feature several guest players, including Josh Hayes, Jasper Cartwright, Liv Kennedy, Grant Howitt, Aoife Wilson, and Doug Cockle. Different episodes have different Game Masters; for brevity, they are listed alongside each episode.

{{reflist}}

• [https://www.outsidexbox.com/ Outside Xbox]
• [https://www.outsidextra.com/ Outside Xtra]
• {{YouTube|channel=UCKk076mm-7JjLxJcFSXIPJA|suffix=|title=OutsideXbox}}
• {{YouTube|channel=UCjf6YzmyaKi8880IXMJ5kGA|suffix=|title=Outside Xtra}}
• {{YouTube|channel=UCW84BDc_irMSbrnrNEcbyrg|suffix=|title=OxShorts}}
• {{YouTube|channel=UC2tYILcpZndcXT2cENYOmaw|suffix=|title=Oxventure}}

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