Outside Xbox, 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 (combined) and over 1.9 billion views across all three channels as of July 2025.See:
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 (Oxventure)
Series regulars: Johnny Chiodini – Dungeon Master and role-player Luke Westaway – role-player
History
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. 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 Lasers & Feelings 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.
+Season OneEpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date1The Spicy Rat Caper8 September 2017215 September 2017324 September 20174Spot of Bother29 December 201755 January 2018612 January 20187Wild Wild Woods14 February 201789An Orcward Encounter23 April 20181025 April 201811Quiet Riot18 September 20181213Plunder Siege15 October 20181415A Fishmas Carol27 December 2018161728 December 20181819Bad Chair Day2 April 201920Brawl of the Wild3 April 201921Heist Society8 April 201922Stop Hammer Time15 April 201923Spell Check19 June 2019
+Season TwoEpisodeTitleOriginal Release DateThe Levelling7 August 20191Out of Order14 August 2019221 August 2019328 August 20194Ship Happens1 November 20195Mind Your Manors8 November 20196Rolling in the Deep26 November 20197Peak Performance30 December 2019831 December 201991 January 2020102 January 202011Exhibition Impossible13 March 20201220 March 20201327 March 202014Faire Trial3 April 202015Sect Appeal17 April 202016The Corn Ultimatum1 May 202017Hunter Pressure15 May 2020Levelling Up Special22 May 202018Elf Hazard29 May 202019Bone to Pick19 June 2020203 July 202021Tower Rangers17 July 202022Watch Out!31 July 202023Gnome Alone28 August 202024Fast and Furriest16 September 202025Snow Mercy2 October 202026Mule Be Sorry9 October 202027Unreal Estate16 September 20202831 October 202029Court in the Act13 November 202030Heir Superiority 30 November 202031Silent Knight28 December 20203229 December 202033Chart of Darkness15 January 202134Sail of the Century29 January 20213530 January 202136Brine and Punishment12 February 20213713 February 202138High Moon26 February 20213927 February 202140Crawl Me Maybe12 March 20214113 March 2021
+Season Three - The Orbpocalypse SagaEpisodeTitleOriginal Release DateSeason One + Two Recap22 March 2021The Levelling19 May 20211Sphere We Go23 May 20212Epic Jail30 May 20213Escaped Crusaders6 June 20214Wrangle in the Tangle13 June 20215Twin it to Win it20 June 20216Monky Business27 June 20217Party Fowl4 July 20218No Way Rosé 11 July 20219Fools of Engagement18 July 202110Plandemonium25 July 202111Dine Hard1 August 202112Season Finale8 August 2021
+2021-2022 SpecialsTitleOriginal Release DateA Fête Worse Than Death31 October 2021Tome Sweet Tome7 November 2021Wedded Redemption14 November 2021Let's Get Fiscal5 December 2021Hog Wild27 December 202128 December 2021Battle for Bardcon9 March 2022Big Deck Energy10 June 2022Bride or Die17 June 2022
+Season Four - Legacy of DragonsEpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date1Shell Shock30 September 20222Record Time7 October 20223Bad Altitude14 October 20224Carpe Idiom21 October 20225Parley Hard11 November 20226Mean Gulls18 November 20227Mist Opportunity25 November 20228Ballot Time2 December 20229Ready Lair One9 December 202210Corpse and Robbers16 December 2022
+2022-2023 SpecialsTitleOriginal Release DateSnow Escape30 December 2022Knight Shift6 January 2023Grad Attitude13 January 2023Baking Bad20 January 2023
+Season Five - ExtinctionEpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date1Paddle Royale24 February 20232Life Finds a Dob3 March 20233Centaur of Attention10 March 20234Hag Reflex17 March 20235Below the Pelt24 March 20236In Dino Veritas 31 March 20237Cursed Case Scenario14 April 20238Cavern a Bad Day21 April 20239Staff Wars28 April 2023
+2023-2024 SpecialsTitleOriginal Release DatePlay Fight7 April 2023Squid Pro Quo23 June 2023Halloween Special31 October 2023Clear & Present Danger22 December 2023Battle Royale15 March 2024 +Season Six - The Final SeasonEpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date1Frenemy at the Gates12 April 20242Elf-Fulfilling Prophecy19 April 20243Fails from the Crypt26 April 20244Eldritch or Die Trying3 May 20245Prism Break10 May 20246Portal Combat17 May 2024
Wyrdwood Following the conclusion of the flagship Dungeons & Dragons series, Oxventure launched Wyrdwood, a new campaign created by Chiodini based on British folklore and folk horror media. The first season debuted on 13 September 2024 and concluded on 1 November 2024. The second season ran from July 11 to August 29, 2025. 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.
+Season OneChapterTitleOriginal Release Date1Folkmoot13 September 20242Rootbound20 September 20243Howls in the Night27 September 20244The Path of Broken Oaths4 October 20245Ironclad11 October 20246Shapes in the Mist18 October 20247Friends & Falsehoods4 October 202481 November 2024
+Season TwoEpisodeTitleOriginal Release Date1Mossfold11 July 20252Homecoming18 July 20253Marsh & Malice25 July 20254The Fog1 August 20255Angler8 August 20256Robin's Gambit15 August 20257The Tower - Part 122 August 20258The Tower - Part 229 August 2025
Blades in the Dark 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. +Season OneEpisodeTitleOriginal Release DatePhase One1Dead Man's Debt8 January 202129 January 20213Ironhook's Bounty22 January 2021423 January 20215The Cab-Con Caper5 February 202166 February 20217High Stakes at the Splintered Bone19 February 2021820 February 20219The Dreadful Dimmer Sisters5 March 2021106 March 2021Phase Two11The Gut Cutter Bargain19 March 20211220 March 202113The Astor Gambit2 April 2021143 April 202115First Flight of the Sparrowhawk16 April 20211617 April 202117Murder at Volisport Academy30 April 2021181 May 202119The Lampblack Wedding14 May 20212015 May 202121The Big Score28 May 20212229 May 2021Christmas Special23A Crimsnight Carol17 December 2021