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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Hitman 2: Your 5 Fave Hits From 2019
Turns out we played a lot of Hitman 2 in the last 12 months, to the surprise of absolutely no-one. So when we asked for your favourite moments from our various bungled assassinations, there were plenty of highlights. Here are the five most ludicrous moments and be sure to subscribe to Outside Xbox on YouTube for plenty more Hitman in 2020.
8 Repeated Voice Lines You Need to Hear a Few More Times
Hey! Listen! Sometimes games reuse voice lines so frequently that they become seared onto our frontal lobe with a red hot cattle brand. Usually it's the case that there simply wasn't enough voice acting recorded to fill a 30 hour game full of repetitive combat, but sometimes it's a scenario where the line itself is so weird that it stays with you forever. Either way, here are eight of them we thought you might like to hear again.
We Tackle Ghost Pirates, On-Fire Ships in Sea of Thieves' New Tall Tale
Sea of Thieves Tall Tale Seabound Soul is out now on Xbox One as a free update to Sea of Thieves. Here's gameplay in which Andy and I dust off our peg legs and set sail for a life of adventure or, more likely, death by misadventure.
WWE 2K20's Story Mode is Very Weird
As you can see in this WWE 2K20 story mode gameplay, WWE 2K20's new career mode is inspired by the career mode in the NBA games. But does it work for the spandex soap opera that is wrestling? Spoiler alert: not really, but at least it's rubbish in some pretty amusing ways, including a bizarre high school flashback.
We're Lumbered With The Worst Teammate Ever in Grid (Sponsored Content)
Sponsored Content: As if it wasn't difficult enough being a top tier racing driver, we have to contend with the enemy within - in this case, our treacherous teammate Nick Whittle. He might not always be our official Nemesis, appointed by GRID's new Nemesis system, but he'll always be the Nemesis of our hearts.
We Attempt To Kill 'Lost' Elusive Target The Identity Thief in Hitman 2
We return to Paris with some unfinished business. We never killed The Identity Thief elusive target the first time around and now that he's popped up again in Hitman 2 it's time to make up for lost time. Also, he deserves to die for that outfit alone.
We Gamble Our Money Away in GTA Online's New Casino
After years of waiting GTA Online's Casino is finally open and we've dropped a fat stack on a tasteless top floor penthouse. Join us as we give you the tour and then gamble all our hard earned money away on the roulette table, blackjack, fruit machines and horse racing.
7 Unwinnable Boss Fights You Can Actually Win
If a game really wants to put you in your place, the easiest way is to drop you into a boss fight, usually early in the game, that is unwinnable. In this way way you're reminded that you, the player, are a worthless scrub who will have to go on a hero's journey in order to defeat the evil baddie.
7 Reasons a Real F1 Driver is Faster Than You (Even on F1 2019)
F1 drivers are fast in an actual Formula One car, sure, but we were secretly hoping we'd be quicker than them on our home turf of videogames. Find out exactly what happened when we challenged real life Aston Martin Red Bull Racing driver Pierre Gasly on F1 2019 and discover the 7 reasons he's probably faster than you.
7 Horror Movie Villains Way More Killable in Games
Most horror movie baddies are unstoppable murder machines in their cinematic incarnations, but that's not always the case when they make the leap to games. Consider these seven invincible horror movie villains who became fragile, vulnerable meat-sacks in videogames.
We Dub Ourselves 'God of Driving' in F1 2019 (Sponsored Content)
F1 2019 adds a revamped career mode that begins with you mixing it up in the newly introduced Formula 2 championship. It's here that career-long rivalries will be established, rivalries such as Devon Butler versus us, The God of Driving.
It's Rico vs Demons in Just Cause 4's Los Demonios DLC
Join us for gameplay from the new Just Cause 4 DLC Los Demonios, due for release on June 26th. In it Rico battles against a bunch of weird, ancient demons using only his wits, his skills and the brand new demon crossbow weapon, which, yes is probably the most useful of those three things.
Watch Dogs Legion: 7 Most London Things in Watch Dogs 3
Watch Dogs Legion is one of the most ambitious games of E3 2019, letting you choose any of London's citizens and recruit them as a playable character. We've played it and, as Londoners, here are the things we deem the most London in Watch Dogs Legion.
7 Easter Eggs You Can Only Find One Day a Year
It's hard enough to find Easter eggs in games, desperately head-butting walls looking for a secret cave or something. These games decided to make things even trickier by making these Easter eggs only available to find on one of the 365 days of the year.
Layers of Fear 2 Gameplay in Show of the Week
Join us as for Show of the Week as we venture cautiously into the haunted cruise ship of Layers of Fear 2. No longer are you a troubled painter, instead you're a troubled actor and the layers are the layers of your character. It makes perfect sense, probably. Watch as we play the first hour of Layers of Fear 2 gameplay in Show of the Week and subscribe for this show every Friday!
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is Prehistoric Assassin's Creed
From the director behind the original Assassin's Creed, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey puts you in charge of the prehistoric apes that would eventually evolve into humans. Forget RPG skill trees, here you'll have to learn how to use a stick.
Agent 47 Goes on a Fish Rampage in Hitman 2
Something fishy is going on with Agent 47 in The Aelwin Augment Escalation mission. He's tasked not with killing a target, but simply with pacifying them by slapping them in the head with a fish. It turns out to be an effective non-lethal melee weapon as this Hitman 2 Escalation descends into a fish rampage.
7 Bosses Who Nearly Quizzed You To Death
Normally a boss fight involves a big circular arena and rocket launchers, but occasionally bosses want to flex their intellectual muscle rather than their player smashing muscles. Also known as their muscles. Here are a bunch of bosses who couldn't resist delivering a quiz.
Hitman HD Enhanced Collection is Classic Hitmans Remastered: Show of the Week
January is usually pretty quiet for new game releases, but we've got a couple of old game releases today: Hitman Blood Money and Hitman Absolution, both making a comeback as part of the new Hitman HD Enhanced Collection on Xbox One and PS4.
7 New Games for 2019 You Didn't Know You Need in Your Life
We're sure an intelligent, attractive Outside Xbox viewer like you knows all about the big games coming out this year, but what about the smaller ones that might have escaped your attention? Here are 7 upcoming games for 2019 that you should definitely know about.
Day 4 of the Oxbox Xmas Challenge is a Flamethrown Christmas Dinner
Day 4 of the Oxbox Xmas Challenge 2018 and it's turkey time, with Jane attempting to successfully serve up Christmas dinner by flamethrowering turkeys in Overcooked.
Show of the Week: Red Dead Online Reaction and Mike's Most Wanted Challenge
Surprise! The Red Dead Online Beta went live this week and no-one was more surprised than us, or more specifically than Andy who has mysteriously gone missing all of a sudden. We investigate that and share our opinions of Red Dead Redemption 2's long-awaited online multiplayer mode, before Mike takes on a challenge in the game's Most Wanted competitive multiplayer game mode.
We Race The Hogwarts Express in Forza Horizon 4, Sort Of
It's winter in Forza Horizon 4 and we're embarking on a little road trip up to Edinburgh, on a mission to race the Hogwarts Express. And no, we're not going to let the fact that the Hogwarts Express isn't actually in the game stop us.
The 8 Britishest Things in the World of Forza Horizon 4
Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Britain, the land of our birth, and we're rather excited. This is why we've compiled the very Britishest things we saw in this new gameplay from the first hour of the game.
Starlink Battle for Atlas Gameplay is No Man's Skylanders
Starlink: Battle for Atlas is an upcoming space shooter that uses character and spaceship toys that attach to your controller. Behold Starlink gameplay in which we visit the game's first planet Haven with a complement of said plastic toys. No Man's Skylanders? Find out here.
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