OutsideXbox


OutsideXbox, or Oxbox, is a British YouTube channel and group consisting of Jane Douglas, Andy Farrant and Mike Channell. The group also has a sister channel, Outside Xtra, or Oxtra, consisting of Ellen Rose. The group is best known for video games commentary, journalism, and gameplay. The channel also hosts the Oxventure, a real-play tabletop role-playing game series primarily encompassing Dungeons & Dragons but occasionally others such as Blades in the Dark and Deadlands, featuring fellow YouTubers Johnny Chiodini and Luke Westaway, and which was later launched as its own channel. The group has over 3.8 million subscribers and over 1.9 billion views across all three channels as of July 2025.

Members

The following people are part of OutsideXbox and its associated channels:
Editors:
  • Andy Farrant – OutsideXbox
  • Jane Douglas – OutsideXbox
  • Mike Channell – OutsideXbox
  • Ellen Rose – Outside Xtra
  • Luke Westaway – Outside Xtra
Producers:
  • James Hills – video producer
  • Jon Garnham – video producer
  • Zack Fortais-Gomm – producer
Series regulars:
  • Johnny Chiodini – Dungeon Master and role-player
  • Luke Westaway – role-player

    History

OutsideXbox was launched in 2012 by the then EuroGamer 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. The group expanded in 2016 to include a second channel, Outside Xtra, to cover the wider games industry beyond Xbox. 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.
Outside Xbox reached one million subscribers in July 2015.
In February 2018, OutsideXbox and the rest of the Gamer Network, was acquired by ReedPOP, a subsidiary of RELX Group. In 2019, Douglas was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in the UK games industry for her work at OutsideXbox.
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.
Douglas made cameo appearances as a Sixer in Ready Player One and a scientist in Jurassic World: Dominion.
Outside Xtra reached one million subscribers in June 2023. 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.

Oxventure

Both OutsideXbox channels began the Oxventure Dungeons & Dragons campaign in 2017, with Johnny Chiodini as Dungeon Master. 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. At New York Comic Con x MCM Metaverse 2020, the Oxventure did three virtual sessions of the TTRPG on 14 August 2020, 10 October 2020 and 11 June 2021. On 8 January 2021, the Oxventure began a Blades in the Dark series, DM'd by Westaway.
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. 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. 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.
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.

Dungeons & Dragons

The Oxventurer's Guild

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.
EpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date
1The Spicy Rat Caper8 September 2017
2The Spicy Rat Caper15 September 2017
3The Spicy Rat Caper24 September 2017
4Spot of Bother29 December 2017
5Spot of Bother5 January 2018
6Spot of Bother12 January 2018
7Wild Wild Woods14 February 2017
8Wild Wild Woods14 February 2017
9An Orcward Encounter23 April 2018
10An Orcward Encounter25 April 2018
11Quiet Riot18 September 2018
12Quiet Riot18 September 2018
13Plunder Siege15 October 2018
14Plunder Siege15 October 2018
15A Fishmas Carol27 December 2018
16A Fishmas Carol27 December 2018
17A Fishmas Carol28 December 2018
18A Fishmas Carol28 December 2018
19Bad Chair Day2 April 2019
20Brawl of the Wild3 April 2019
21Heist Society8 April 2019
22Stop Hammer Time15 April 2019
23Spell Check19 June 2019

EpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date
The Levelling7 August 2019
1Out of Order14 August 2019
2Out of Order21 August 2019
3Out of Order28 August 2019
4Ship Happens1 November 2019
5Mind Your Manors8 November 2019
6Rolling in the Deep26 November 2019
7Peak Performance30 December 2019
8Peak Performance31 December 2019
9Peak Performance1 January 2020
10Peak Performance2 January 2020
11Exhibition Impossible13 March 2020
12Exhibition Impossible20 March 2020
13Exhibition Impossible27 March 2020
14Faire Trial3 April 2020
15Sect Appeal17 April 2020
16The Corn Ultimatum1 May 2020
17Hunter Pressure15 May 2020
Levelling Up Special22 May 2020
18Elf Hazard29 May 2020
19Bone to Pick19 June 2020
20Bone to Pick3 July 2020
21Tower Rangers17 July 2020
22Watch Out!31 July 2020
23Gnome Alone28 August 2020
24Fast and Furriest16 September 2020
25Snow Mercy2 October 2020
26Mule Be Sorry9 October 2020
27Unreal Estate16 September 2020
28Unreal Estate31 October 2020
29Court in the Act13 November 2020
30Heir Superiority30 November 2020
31Silent Knight28 December 2020
32Silent Knight29 December 2020
33Chart of Darkness15 January 2021
34Sail of the Century29 January 2021
35Sail of the Century30 January 2021
36Brine and Punishment12 February 2021
37Brine and Punishment13 February 2021
38High Moon26 February 2021
39High Moon27 February 2021
40Crawl Me Maybe12 March 2021
41Crawl Me Maybe13 March 2021

EpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date
Season One + Two Recap22 March 2021
The Levelling19 May 2021
1Sphere We Go23 May 2021
2Epic Jail30 May 2021
3Escaped Crusaders6 June 2021
4Wrangle in the Tangle13 June 2021
5Twin it to Win it20 June 2021
6Monky Business27 June 2021
7Party Fowl4 July 2021
8No Way Rosé11 July 2021
9Fools of Engagement18 July 2021
10Plandemonium25 July 2021
11Dine Hard1 August 2021
12Season Finale8 August 2021

TitleOriginal Release Date
A Fête Worse Than Death31 October 2021
Tome Sweet Tome7 November 2021
Wedded Redemption14 November 2021
Let's Get Fiscal5 December 2021
Hog Wild27 December 2021
Hog Wild28 December 2021
Battle for Bardcon9 March 2022
Big Deck Energy10 June 2022
Bride or Die17 June 2022

EpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date
1Shell Shock30 September 2022
2Record Time7 October 2022
3Bad Altitude14 October 2022
4Carpe Idiom21 October 2022
5Parley Hard11 November 2022
6Mean Gulls18 November 2022
7Mist Opportunity25 November 2022
8Ballot Time2 December 2022
9Ready Lair One9 December 2022
10Corpse and Robbers16 December 2022

TitleOriginal Release Date
Snow Escape30 December 2022
Knight Shift6 January 2023
Grad Attitude13 January 2023
Baking Bad20 January 2023

EpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date
1Paddle Royale24 February 2023
2Life Finds a Dob3 March 2023
3Centaur of Attention10 March 2023
4Hag Reflex17 March 2023
5Below the Pelt24 March 2023
6In Dino Veritas31 March 2023
7Cursed Case Scenario14 April 2023
8Cavern a Bad Day21 April 2023
9Staff Wars28 April 2023

TitleOriginal Release Date
Play Fight7 April 2023
Squid Pro Quo23 June 2023
Halloween Special31 October 2023
Clear & Present Danger22 December 2023
Battle Royale15 March 2024