Archive - Mike Channell
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Mike is co-editor at Outside Xbox. His favourite thing about making videos is adding unnecessary special effects. He has heard all of your 'channel' jokes.
Twitter: @MikeChannell
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Survivalist's Action Cam Is Our New Favourite Thing
Another day, another Xbox Live Indie Game featuring zombies. But this one has a twist: you play as a survivalist hedge fund manager called Joe Wheeler, who pops out from the safety of his underground vault with 100,000 dollars in unmarked bills bulging out of his trousers. Will it help him survive in this cruel zombie apocalypse? Not if the ham-fisted Outside Xbox team have anything to do with it.
Let's Play The Lego Movie Videogame
If you haven't seen The Lego Movie already, we would wholeheartedly recommend it. It's brilliantly written, very funny and looks absolutely stunning. And if that doesn't convince you, it has Batman in it. Whether or not you've seen the flick, you can still enjoy this Let's Play of the official game, which we've kept as light on spoilers as possible. Watch on for laser betrayal, Willy Shakes and discussion of 'lady spots'.
7 Achievements You Will Never Get
You might fancy yourself as handy with a sniper rifle, able to part an enemy's haircut from four miles away. You might be able to hold a racing car in a perfect drift. You might even have the virtual MMA skills of a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champ. It doesn't matter though, you aren't getting your hands on these achievements. Don't believe us? Watch and find out why.
Trials Fusion: 5 Things You Need To Know
We love Trials Evolution, from the 'just one more go' instant restarts, through the tough but ultimately fair physics-based controls, all the way to the hilarious, broken contortions our rider makes when we fluff a landing. It's deeply silly, but it's also serious business. Just ask James, who regularly tickles the top of the leaderboards. Needless to say, we were all keen to see the first proper gameplay from Trials Fusion on Xbox One.
Thief Gameplay Review: The Return of the Stealth Game
The new Thief game from Eidos Montreal will be divisive. The factors in play include nostalgia for the original Thief games and some, often quite obvious, technical niggles. It ultimately comes down to what you expect the game to be. It's not Dishonored, but it's not quite the original Thief series either. To find out what it is, check our gameplay-stuffed review after the jump.
The 10 Most Embarrassing Ways To Die In Titanfall
Titanfall seems designed to make you look cool. The wall-running, the jetpacks, the giant robot fisticuffs. It's difficult to go two minutes without something spectacular happening. But every so often, you do something head-slappingly dumb and, like a Darwin Award nominee, end up paying the ultimate price. With the beta now over, we take a whistle stop tour through the most humiliating ways to die in Titanfall.
Let's Play: Titanfall Beta
Now the Titanfall beta has thrown the doors open to all, hopefully you've experienced Titanfall for yourself. If not, you're missing out on something very special indeed. Ignore the people who say it plays just like Call of Duty because, basically, they're playing it wrong. Titanfall fixes everything people complain about in Call of Duty, including the online insta-deaths and the difficulty less skilled players have with precise twitch shooting. Topping the Titanfall leaderboards involves mastering both the free-running pilot and the heavily armed titan plus finding a loadout for each that works for you. Watch the video and you'll see us get that plate spinning both very wrong and very right.
Outside Xbox Rolls Out In World of Tanks Xbox 360 Edition
This whole free-to-play thing gets a bad rap. Within the first 10 minutes of launching World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition, we were trundling as a platoon towards the front line and our first victory in customised tanks. At no point did the game grind to a halt and refuse to move until we'd handed over our hard earned. What's more, it's surprisingly fun to play as well, as you attempt to wrestle five tons of diesel-powered pig iron into a tactically advantageous position. See how we managed after the jump.
EA Sports UFC Has the Most Realistic Toes in Videogames
Listening to Brian Hayes talk about the level of detail in EA Sports UFC's fighters is a mind-boggling experience. These guys are so realistic that as their weight shifts onto a foot, their toes deform slightly and spread out like on a real foot. If you zoom in on their eyeball, the entire arena is reflected in their cornea. Truly, we are in the next generation of realistic sweaty men.
Show of the Week: The Wolf Among Us and Unlikeliest Game Adaptations
Telltale Games' The Wolf Among Us Episode 2 has finally arrived after an excruciating four-month wait and picks up the story of a collection of fairytale characters hiding out in New York City. Based on the comic book series Fables, it has you play as hard-bitten detective Bigby Wolf (formerly the Big Bad Wolf) as he attempts to solve serial murders. Not your usual one heavily armed man versus a private military stuff, then, which is why we also look at some of the more unexpected, unconventional works that have been adapted into videogames.
Sniper Elite 3 Has Next-Gen Testicles
Proper journalists have this thing called the 'news pyramid', where you lead your news story with the most important fact and all the rest comes later. You can see where our priorities lie based on the headline of this post. Sniper Elite III, just announced by 505 Games and Rebellion, has 1080p next-generation balls. Oh, and after the jump we've also got the first actual Sniper Elite III gameplay and some chat with the game's head of art, if you're interested.
Has Dark Souls 2 Gone Soft?
Dark Souls is difficult. That's its whole deal. So when Namco Bandai and From Software announced there would be a move towards accessibility in Dark Souls 2, hardcore fans (are there any other kind?) got nervous. So having played the first couple of hours, we chat about whether Dark Souls 2 retains its merciless, lonely charm.
8 Reasons Alien: Isolation Won't Break Your Heart Again
We've been hurt before. Even as Aliens: Colonial Marines came in to land, we were still convinced we'd get a decent take on one of the most beloved sci-fi universes in cinema. Then when it was finally released, we discovered that was very much not the case. So it's hardly surprising people are approaching the announcement of Alien: Isolation with caution. We've got eight reasons, though, you should give Sega's Alien: Isolation the benefit of the doubt once again.
6 Xbox One Games We Can't Wait To Play In 2014
Xbox One made its dramatic entrance in 2013, but it'll be this year when it really begins to flex its muscles. With 12 whole months of fresh gameplay, bigger worlds and better multiplayer, that pricey purchase you made is going to start justifying its substantial footprint under your TV. So what are our picks of the ripe videogame bunch here on Outside Xbox? Watch on to find out.
Is This Gaming's Most Useless Detective? - Let's Play: The Raven
Swiss police officer Anton Jakob Zellner, protagonist of The Raven, is singularly the worst detective we've ever encountered in a videogame. He has terrible skills of observation and deduction, to the point where the nine-year-old boy in the game is more astute. You feel less like a player and more like a decreasingly patient chaperone to this bumbling wannabe Poirot. He's even got the same moustache as Agatha Christie's character, for pity's sake. Watch the video after the jump as Andy and I investigate what the devil is going on in the first hour of The Raven.
Why Alien: Isolation Is The Aliens Game We've All Been Waiting For
Sega has announced a new Alien game called Alien: Isolation and, unless you're suffering from some sort of traumatic amnesia, you won't have forgotten how badly that turned out last time. Fortunately, there are many, many reasons why Alien: Isolation is going to be a much better game. Hit the jump to see the very first gameplay footage and find out why this game will make you forget Colonial Marines ever existed.
Halo on Xbox One? - Let's Play Halo: Spartan Assault Co-op
Hey guys, look! It's Halo on the Xbox One, and a whole year before we were expecting it to arrive. Wait, why am I hovering several hundred feet above the action? For the answer to this and many, many more questions, why not watch us play through a couple of the co-op missions in Halo: Spartan Assault? It's a twin-stick shooter that is, somehow, Halo's Xbox One debut. Seeing is believing, so hit the jump for the video.
Oxbox Xmas Challenge Ends With GTA Online Scooter Mountain Climb
Happy 2014 all! This is it. The denouement, the finale. After Christmas Eve's deadlock between contestants Channell and Douglas, we had to look to the comments for a suitable tie-breaking challenge. ODSTSolider was the first to suggest a scooter ride up the daunting Mount Chiliad in GTA Online, so that's where we find ourselves for the decider. Surely just riding a scooter up a hill will be a piece of cake? Wrong. So, so wrong.
Discover The Deleted Scenes From Your Favourite Games
We're all aware of the concept of deleted scenes in movies. Squirrelled away on the DVD, they offer a little more insight into how the film changed over the course of production. Well with games taking just as long to create, if not longer, there's often a ton of stuff left discarded. Archival website The Cutting Room Floor aims to catalogue as many deleted elements as possible from all sorts of games, but we've picked out our highlights from the list, including Bioshock, Call of Duty and Left 4 Dead.
Oxbox Xmas Challenge Climaxes With GTA Online Fighter Jet Theft
Here we are, 12 days later, with the final round of the Oxbox Xmas Challenge. Andy's out of the running after narrowly missing out in his FIFA challenge, so it's up to me to put a stop to Jane's pursuit of ultimate victory. Unfortunately my mission is to steal a jet from Fort Zancudo in GTA Online, something I've never managed to do before. Usually what happens is I end up riddled with bullets while I'm wrestling to get the canopy open. To see if I have better luck this time, hit the jump.
Oxbox Xmas Challenge Rolls On With Call Of Duty Ghosts Knife Predator Challenge
As we hurtle towards the thrilling climax of the Outside Xbox Festive Xmas Challenge thing (we should really settle on an official name for 'branding' purposes) today's challenge has been absolutely one of my favourites. It's nothing to do with the result, which you'll have to watch to discover. Instead, it's my favourite because it transformed Call of Duty from crazy shootout to a tense game of stalking. My mission? Kill one of the other two members of Outside Xbox with only a knife, while they're patrolling the level with the guns of their choice. You have to see this one.
Oxbox Xmas Challenge Endures With Smooth Moves in Call Of Duty: Ghosts
In todays instalment of the Oxbox Xmas Challenge, I attempt to earn the Smooth Moves patch in Call of Duty: Ghosts, which involves performing a running slide and successfully knifing an enemy while you're sliding. Sounds relatively straightforward, right? Find out if it's quite that easy after the jump.
Oxbox Xmas Challenge Persists With Killer Instinct Button Mashing
It's day three of our festive clash of the titans and it's finally my turn to flex my finely honed gaming abilities. My entire gaming life has been leading up to this moment. This moment where I mash buttons in an attempt to win a game of Killer Instinct on Xbox One completely blindfolded. Find out how I get on after the jump.
Show Of The Week: The Worst Games Of 2013
The end of another year is time to reflect on the achievements of our fair industry. Who has plumbed the deepest depths? Who has scraped the bottom of the barrel most shamelessly? These are all things to be celebrated alongside Game of the Year. This week we're rounding up the most disappointing games of 2013. Only the amusingly rubbish ones though, not just the ones that cruised in at a 7/10 review score. Watch the show after the jump to find out which games earned the dubious honour.
Peggle 2 is 'Joy Distilled Into A Game', 'Pachinko Crossed With Something Else'
The thing you have to know about Peggle is that none of it is accidental. It's laser-targeted to tickle your pleasure centre and that's the reason it's more addictive than Pringles. Everything from the rising tone as you rack up more and more pegs, to the eventual fireworks when you clear the final orange peg is perfect. So that makes it all the more strange that Peggle 2 is missing something vital.
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