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
- James Hills – video producer
- Jon Garnham – video producer
- Zack Fortais-Gomm – producer
- Johnny Chiodini – Dungeon Master and role-player
- Luke Westaway – role-player
History
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.| Episode | Title | Original Release Date |
| 1 | The Spicy Rat Caper | 8 September 2017 |
| 2 | The Spicy Rat Caper | 15 September 2017 |
| 3 | The Spicy Rat Caper | 24 September 2017 |
| 4 | Spot of Bother | 29 December 2017 |
| 5 | Spot of Bother | 5 January 2018 |
| 6 | Spot of Bother | 12 January 2018 |
| 7 | Wild Wild Woods | 14 February 2017 |
| 8 | Wild Wild Woods | 14 February 2017 |
| 9 | An Orcward Encounter | 23 April 2018 |
| 10 | An Orcward Encounter | 25 April 2018 |
| 11 | Quiet Riot | 18 September 2018 |
| 12 | Quiet Riot | 18 September 2018 |
| 13 | Plunder Siege | 15 October 2018 |
| 14 | Plunder Siege | 15 October 2018 |
| 15 | A Fishmas Carol | 27 December 2018 |
| 16 | A Fishmas Carol | 27 December 2018 |
| 17 | A Fishmas Carol | 28 December 2018 |
| 18 | A Fishmas Carol | 28 December 2018 |
| 19 | Bad Chair Day | 2 April 2019 |
| 20 | Brawl of the Wild | 3 April 2019 |
| 21 | Heist Society | 8 April 2019 |
| 22 | Stop Hammer Time | 15 April 2019 |
| 23 | Spell Check | 19 June 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Original Release Date |
| The Levelling | 7 August 2019 | |
| 1 | Out of Order | 14 August 2019 |
| 2 | Out of Order | 21 August 2019 |
| 3 | Out of Order | 28 August 2019 |
| 4 | Ship Happens | 1 November 2019 |
| 5 | Mind Your Manors | 8 November 2019 |
| 6 | Rolling in the Deep | 26 November 2019 |
| 7 | Peak Performance | 30 December 2019 |
| 8 | Peak Performance | 31 December 2019 |
| 9 | Peak Performance | 1 January 2020 |
| 10 | Peak Performance | 2 January 2020 |
| 11 | Exhibition Impossible | 13 March 2020 |
| 12 | Exhibition Impossible | 20 March 2020 |
| 13 | Exhibition Impossible | 27 March 2020 |
| 14 | Faire Trial | 3 April 2020 |
| 15 | Sect Appeal | 17 April 2020 |
| 16 | The Corn Ultimatum | 1 May 2020 |
| 17 | Hunter Pressure | 15 May 2020 |
| Levelling Up Special | 22 May 2020 | |
| 18 | Elf Hazard | 29 May 2020 |
| 19 | Bone to Pick | 19 June 2020 |
| 20 | Bone to Pick | 3 July 2020 |
| 21 | Tower Rangers | 17 July 2020 |
| 22 | Watch Out! | 31 July 2020 |
| 23 | Gnome Alone | 28 August 2020 |
| 24 | Fast and Furriest | 16 September 2020 |
| 25 | Snow Mercy | 2 October 2020 |
| 26 | Mule Be Sorry | 9 October 2020 |
| 27 | Unreal Estate | 16 September 2020 |
| 28 | Unreal Estate | 31 October 2020 |
| 29 | Court in the Act | 13 November 2020 |
| 30 | Heir Superiority | 30 November 2020 |
| 31 | Silent Knight | 28 December 2020 |
| 32 | Silent Knight | 29 December 2020 |
| 33 | Chart of Darkness | 15 January 2021 |
| 34 | Sail of the Century | 29 January 2021 |
| 35 | Sail of the Century | 30 January 2021 |
| 36 | Brine and Punishment | 12 February 2021 |
| 37 | Brine and Punishment | 13 February 2021 |
| 38 | High Moon | 26 February 2021 |
| 39 | High Moon | 27 February 2021 |
| 40 | Crawl Me Maybe | 12 March 2021 |
| 41 | Crawl Me Maybe | 13 March 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Original Release Date |
| Season One + Two Recap | 22 March 2021 | |
| The Levelling | 19 May 2021 | |
| 1 | Sphere We Go | 23 May 2021 |
| 2 | Epic Jail | 30 May 2021 |
| 3 | Escaped Crusaders | 6 June 2021 |
| 4 | Wrangle in the Tangle | 13 June 2021 |
| 5 | Twin it to Win it | 20 June 2021 |
| 6 | Monky Business | 27 June 2021 |
| 7 | Party Fowl | 4 July 2021 |
| 8 | No Way Rosé | 11 July 2021 |
| 9 | Fools of Engagement | 18 July 2021 |
| 10 | Plandemonium | 25 July 2021 |
| 11 | Dine Hard | 1 August 2021 |
| 12 | Season Finale | 8 August 2021 |
| Title | Original Release Date |
| A Fête Worse Than Death | 31 October 2021 |
| Tome Sweet Tome | 7 November 2021 |
| Wedded Redemption | 14 November 2021 |
| Let's Get Fiscal | 5 December 2021 |
| Hog Wild | 27 December 2021 |
| Hog Wild | 28 December 2021 |
| Battle for Bardcon | 9 March 2022 |
| Big Deck Energy | 10 June 2022 |
| Bride or Die | 17 June 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Original Release Date |
| 1 | Shell Shock | 30 September 2022 |
| 2 | Record Time | 7 October 2022 |
| 3 | Bad Altitude | 14 October 2022 |
| 4 | Carpe Idiom | 21 October 2022 |
| 5 | Parley Hard | 11 November 2022 |
| 6 | Mean Gulls | 18 November 2022 |
| 7 | Mist Opportunity | 25 November 2022 |
| 8 | Ballot Time | 2 December 2022 |
| 9 | Ready Lair One | 9 December 2022 |
| 10 | Corpse and Robbers | 16 December 2022 |
| Title | Original Release Date |
| Snow Escape | 30 December 2022 |
| Knight Shift | 6 January 2023 |
| Grad Attitude | 13 January 2023 |
| Baking Bad | 20 January 2023 |
| Episode | Title | Original Release Date |
| 1 | Paddle Royale | 24 February 2023 |
| 2 | Life Finds a Dob | 3 March 2023 |
| 3 | Centaur of Attention | 10 March 2023 |
| 4 | Hag Reflex | 17 March 2023 |
| 5 | Below the Pelt | 24 March 2023 |
| 6 | In Dino Veritas | 31 March 2023 |
| 7 | Cursed Case Scenario | 14 April 2023 |
| 8 | Cavern a Bad Day | 21 April 2023 |
| 9 | Staff Wars | 28 April 2023 |
| Title | Original Release Date |
| Play Fight | 7 April 2023 |
| Squid Pro Quo | 23 June 2023 |
| Halloween Special | 31 October 2023 |
| Clear & Present Danger | 22 December 2023 |
| Battle Royale | 15 March 2024 |