Outside Xtra

OutsideXtra is a companion channel to Outsidexbox, hosted by Ellen Rose and Luke Westaway, with appearances from the OutsideXbox hosts Andy Farrant, Mike Channell and Jane Douglas.
==About==
The OutsideXtra hosts both have backgrounds in gaming media, with Ellen working as a host for Xbox between 2015 and 2016 as well as having her own vlogging channel icklenellierose, while Luke was an editor at CNET where he co-hosted their show Adventures in Tech.
The first indication that OutsideXbox was going to expand came in late September 2016, when Oxbox posted a Let's Play of Rise of the Tomb Raider co-op featuring Andy and Ellen,YouTube: Rise of the Tomb Raider Co-op Gameplay: Let's Play Rise of the Tomb Raider Co-op Endurance Mode which coincided with Ellen posting a vlogYouTube: Why I Left Xbox On on her own channel where she hinted at a new project she was about to embark on, but she couldn't say more than that.
A few weeks later, on October 19th 2016, OutsideXbox posted a teaserTwitter: @OutsideXbox BIG NEWS TODAY, EVERYONE oxoxox on their Twitter account that some big news was coming, and a couple of hours later OutsideXtra was unveiled.
On 8th March 2024 Luke and Ellen announced that, after a few weeks of Show of the Weekend not being posted in the usual Saturday slot where it had been uploaded since the channel's inception, the channel was dropping Show of the Weekend,YouTube: So... About Show of the Weekend due to the show not meshing with YouTube's algorithm which was making producing SotWe unsustainable.
On 10th April 2024 Luke announced that he was leaving Oxtra,YouTube: Luke is Leaving Outside Xtra, the Fool so he could focus more time on his music and tabletop game writing career - though he will remain as part of Oxventure, as well as continuing with his personal YouTube channel.
==Notable Let's Plays==
*Animal Crossing: New Horizons
*Ark: Survival Evolved
*Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
*Assassin's Creed Origins
*Bloodborne
*Doom Eternal
*Dungeons & Dragons (yes, the tabletop role playing game)
*The Elder Scrolls Skyrim Remastered
*Farming Simulator 2017
*For Honor
*Ghost of Tsushima
*Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
*Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
*The Last Guardian
*The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
*Lego City Undercover
*Monster Hunter World
*Mouse Trap (yes, the board game)
*NieR Automata
*Overcooked
*P.T.
*Resident Evil VII
*Star Wars Battlefront II
*Super Mario Odyssey
*Yooka-Laylee
==Oxtra Christmas Challenge==
As it's a tradition for the Outsidexbox crew to have an annual Christmas challenge, the Outside Xtra crew have their own Christmas challenge - although the key difference is that each challenge has the two hosts going head-to-head. Most notably, every year has Luke and Ellen create their own version of Pikachu in a variety of mediums, be it drawn or created in games ranging from Animal Crossing: New Horizons to Red Dead Redemption 2, which more often than not Luke manages to win to Ellen's eternal chagrin.
*Outside Xtra Christmas Challenge 2016 - Luke won with 4 points to Ellen's 3
*Outside Xtra Christmas Challenge 2017 - Ellen won with 4 points to Luke's 3
*Outside Xtra Christmas Challenge 2018 - Ellen won with 4 points to Luke's 3
*Outside Xtra Christmas Challenge 2019 - Luke won with 4 points to Ellen's 3, albeit winning with a challenge to spare
*Outside Xtra Christmas Challenge 2020 - Luke won with 4 points to Ellen's 3
*Outside Xtra Christmas Challenge 2021 - Ellen won with 5 points to Luke's 2, winning the challenge after the sixth task
===Oxboxtra Tournament of Champions===
Ahead of Christmas 2022, the format of the Christmas challenege was changed so that all five OutsideXbox and Outside Xtra hosts would face off against each other in a series of challenges.
* OxBoxtra Tournament of Champions 2022 - Luke won with 4 points, finishing ahead of Andy, Mike and Ellen on 3, and Jane on 2.
* OxBoxTra Tournament of Champions 2023 - Mike won with 5 points, finishing ahead of Andy on 4, Luke on 3, Ellen on 2, and Jane on 1.
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*10,000 subscribers: October 19, 2016 
*20,000 subscribers: October 19, 2016
*30,000 subscribers: October 20, 2016
*40,000 subscribers: October 22, 2016
*50,000 subscribers: October 23, 2016
*60,000 subscribers: October 24, 2016
*70,000 subscribers: October 25, 2016
*80,000 subscribers: October 26, 2016
*90,000 subscribers: October 29, 2016
*100,000 subscribers: November 6, 2016
*150,000 subscribers: December 23, 2016
*200,000 subscribers: February 24, 2017
*250,000 subscribers: April 24, 2017
*300,000 subscribers: July 8, 2017
*400,000 subscribers: January 27, 2018
*500,000 subscribers: July 25, 2018
*750,000 subscribers: November 24, 2019
*1,000,000 subscribers: June 13, 2023
==Quotes==
*Luke and Ellen playing Dragon Quest Builders:
**Ellen: "Wots this funny flag doin' 'ere? There's somethin' 'ere special 'bout this place. It's so bright 'n' invitin'..."
**Luke: *laughing* I love the voice you've arbitrarily given this person!
**Ellen: "Moi name's Pippa! Wot's yours?" *laughing* I don't know why I made her Cockney!! "Can I live 'ere??"
**...
**Luke: I... I'm just gonna say, Ellen, I am shipping Pippa and Tuna pretty hard.
**Ellen: *reading* "...don't you think it would be so much better if we had something to sleep on at night?"
**Luke: Oh...! Ohh!
**Ellen: *laughs*
**Luke: *reading* "...Maybe you could 'build' something!"
**Ellen: A relationship... based on trust!
**Luke: Can you build the ULTIMATE fortification: a healthy marriage??
**Ellen: *cracks up*
**Luke: Ellen, come on! Focus up!
**Ellen: *reading* "It'd be great if you could make two things to sleep on!"
**Both: OH. *laughs*
*Luke and Ellen sing the Jigglypuff song with eerily high-pitched voices
**James the Cameraman: That sounded mental.
**Ellen: We creeped out James!
**Luke: We've upset our colleagues, we've upset James, I can only assume that we've upset viewers at home. Thanks for sticking with the channel until now...
**Andy: We understand if you want to unsubscribe
**Luke: It was a good run. We had a hell of a month there.
*Luke talks about the No9 train from Grim Fandango
**Luke: You're probably thinking "This sounds great!" Why wouldn't you want to take this upmarket transit system into the afterlife? Well first off you have to be dead, which is one barrier to entry...
**Ellen walks into shot behind Luke while brandishing a sword
**Luke: ...I don't want to break down.
**Ellen turns around and walks out of shot
*"It's always with the dead children in Pokemon" - Ellen, when quizzed about Phantump's Pokedex entry
*Ellen explains why her dream animal combination is a cross between a horse and an eagle
**Ellen: ...and I love horses, best of all the animals...
**As Ellen continues her sentence, Luke joins in
**Luke & Ellen: ...I love horses, they're my friends.
*Ellen is talking about Phantom from Devil May Cry
**Ellen: What is it about first bosses and spiders...wait, spiders? No, no no no, no.
**Luke: It is more of a scorpion
**Ellen: Nope, nope, sorry, no.
**Ellen gets up and walks off, removing her microphone as she goes, followed by a test card
**Luke: Ellen, just get this done and then...
**Ellen: No! Luke, you know that I don't like spiders, I can't look at...no, I'm calling my agent, this is over, done.
**Another test card flashes up, and we see Andy sat in the chair
**Andy: What is it about first bosses and spiders...slash scorpions?
*Luke is sat alone on the couch at the start of Show of the Weekend
**Luke: Hi, I'm Luke...
**Luke looks to his right and sees Ellen isn't there, and receives a message alert on his phone
**Luke: Oh no...
**Luke walks into the prop room, where Jane is standing around
**Luke: Jane, Ellen just texted, she's gone down with the same flu that I had that's going around, and I was just wondering...
**Jane: Let me guess, you came to barter for my accursed cure-all elixir.
**as ominous music begins to play, there's a clap of thunder
**Jane: Well rightly you covet it, Luke, but be warned: one drop may cure, but two drops brings the waking death.
**Luke: Actually, I was just going to ask if you wanted to fill in while she rests up?
**a beat
**Jane: Okay, sure, yeah.
**Luke walks out of shot and Jane follows, and as she follows she pops open the elixir bottle and downs the contents
*Luke continues to have difficulty making his way down Mt. Chiliad in GTA Online, yet acts as if he's in control
**Luke: Ha ha, Ellen, what if I was...
**The avatar trips and falls, adding to its already long list of deaths trying to run down the mountain
**Ellen: Dead?
**Luke: ...dead.
==Trivia==
*Away from Oxtra duties Luke has released three albums, his first album Short Songs With Long Titles being released in August 2018,Twitter: @lukewestaway I made some music! Live now on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon & more: 'Short Songs With Long Titles' -- Nine (9) little tunes for piano written and performed by yours truly 🎵 his second Basically Afloat in September 2019.twitter: @lukewestaway Album art/title time! Basically Afloat - my second album of music, please look for it in all digital music stores (and Spotify) in the next couple of weeks 😬 Will post the track list tomorrow, & a bit of background on how this one came about, and what to expect. And his third album Creature Of Habit in February 2021.
*Luke set up his own YouTube channel in April 2020,YouTube: keywest_away which is where he livestreams himself composing music and reading short stories.
==Gallery==
Oxtra_Teaser.jpg|The teaser image prior to the channel reveal
Luke_and_ellen_full_preview.jpg|The base for the teaser image
Oxtra_couch.jpg|Luke & Ellen with the on-brand purple Oxtra couch (cover)
OutsideXtra.jpg|The full OutsideXtra crew
Ox_rezzed.jpg|The full OX crew at EGX Rezzed 2017
Oxbox_e3_2017.jpg|The full OX crew preparing to head for E3 2017
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016
Category:One million subscribers