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Where gamers talk about gaming and whatever gamers talk about. Hosted by the charismatic SpeakingLion, DLC Required welcomes streamers, developers, and video game lovers for passionate and unfiltered conversations. From hot takes and lore rants to lively debates, Lion and her guests embrace the chaos with genuine enthusiasm to create a show for gamers from all walks of life that is as authentic as it is endearing.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhere gamers talk about gaming and whatever gamers talk about. Hosted by the charismatic SpeakingLion, DLC Required welcomes streamers, developers, and video game lovers for passionate and unfiltered conversations.
DLC Required is hosted by SpeakingLion. The show has published 30 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Behind the Music of Borderlands 4 (ft. Joshua Carro)" (20 March 2026, 57 minutes), "Writing Borderlands 4 (ft. Sam Winker, Narrative Director @ Gearbox Software)" (26 November 2025, 122 minutes), and "Borderlands: The Hunt Starts NOW! (ft. MystiqueSiren & Paskaroni)" (4 April 2025, 115 minutes).
DLC Required publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 117 minutes across 30 episodes.
Booking probability for DLC Required is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. DLC Required requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. DLC Required's contact route on record: verified email.
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SpeakingLion hosts DLC Required, a leisure podcast with 30 episodes published.
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DLC Required
<p>The incredible, innovative composer Joshua Carro (Borderlands 4) joins DLC Required for a second time to dive into the world of video game music composition (and other nerdy things).</p><p>Currently the In-House...
Episode #1
<p>Happy holidays! It's a new season of DLC Required, and we have one of the coolest guests ever joining us to take a peek inside the writers room of Borderlands 4. </p><p>You may know Narrative Director Sam Winkler...
Episode #18
<p>The Borderlands Hunt is a community-ran event where people race to collect every drop in a Borderlands game while raising money for St. Jude Play Live. Today, April 4th, is the kick-off of Borderlands 2 Hunt Before...
Episode #17
<p>We finally have a release date for the hotly anticipated Borderlands 4. Obviously, K6, Joltz, and I had to sit down and break it down. What will the gunplay be like? Movement mechanics?!?! Does story matter? Should...
Episode #16
<p>Forgotten lore from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel? Emily Swan? The Watcher? Prolific modder EpicNNG joins this week’s episode of DLC Required with an enthusiastic dive into Borderlands lore and alllllll the...
Episode #15
<p>Miqueagul comes in swinging with hot takes on the Borderlands 4 trailer, game dev, and analogies. Lots of analogies. He asks questions like, "Is Ava in BL4?" and "What's a himbo?" Follow...
Episode #14
<p>AN EXTRA LONG EPISODE? Some hot Monster energy takes, anticipation for Borderlands 4, mini map rage, and pretty much every niche Borderlands argument in existence. <br/><br/>Follow...
Episode #13
<p>Ki11erSix returns to DLC Required on the heels of the BORDERLANDS 4 ANNOUNCEMENT at Gamescom. We immediately just start ranting without any context, but I swear it gets more sane. We're just excited. We answer some...
Episode #12
<p>What do BlameFrost and Lion have in common? They have a lot of feelings about video games. And music. And Borderlands. And Myspace. And roleplay. And -- whatever, just listen. It's fun.<br/><br/>BlameFrost...
Episode #11
<p>Torbin has been working in video games for decades. He likes to remind people of that. You may know him from Dreamhack. You may know him as the Senior Community Manager at Daybreak Games. You may know him as a...
Episode #10
Robert Fernandez (@banditofernando) is a Senior Motion Capture Facial Technician working at Gearbox. He's also a really rad dude. Robert joins Lion for rants about Runescape (yes, that Runescape), the fun and the hard...
Episode #9
<p>Borderlands heartthrob and lifelong content machine bzk25 joins this week to tell you entirely too much about himself. Is Borderlands 3 too easy? Most embarrassing stream moment? Which Pokémon movie is the best...
Episode #8
<p><br/>Hyperfixations, Bunkers & Badasses & TTRPGs, the best Cyperpunk 2077 characters, Borderlands movie & video game adaptations, bad dice rolls, Siren lore, too many segues. Riley, the BM of FFAdventureCo, joins...
Episode #7
<p>ROLL FOR INIATIVE! Josh, the composer of the bangin' soundtrack behind Tiny Tina's Wonderlands joins us this week for an insightful and little bit wild talk about making game music, indie games, and more for a peek...
Episode #6
<p>Lion and Hawkin make a drink and talk very fast about things they love. Hawkin makes the case for their Top 5 Games list and spicy things. Lion gets distracted by dice and tells embarrassing stories. Two lore nerds...
Episode #5
<p>Gas, Miq, and Lion unite to talk in circles and gang up on each other about Borderlands stuff, and IMPORTANT stuff, like what type of french fry is the best fry. They accidentally ranted for, like, six hours. Here...
Episode #4
<p>What does it take to make a Borderlands cosplay? Where do you even start? What is Fortnite? Is Gearbox actually teasing Borderlands 4? Recorded on the heels of the FIRST BORDERLANDS MOVIE TRAILER, Paskaroni joins...
Episode #3
<p>The Queen of janky gaming, TweetyExpert, joins this episode of DLC Required! Lion gets schooled in all things Tarkov and more. <br/><br/>Follow TweetyExpert: https://beacons.ai/tweetyexpert<br/><br/></p><p>Stay...
Episode #2
<p>MCMDesigns is BACK. The man with the majestic mustache (and fellow Supermassive Game superfan) returns to rant all things Until Dawn, The Quarry, and Dark Pictures Anthology. From Tier Lists and a regrettable round...
Episode #1
<p>Cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate 3, Borderlands, cosplay? The fantastic Phaseknight joins Lion on the first episode of Season 2 of DLC Required to talk all kinds of games, cosplay, and nerdy crap. Including dying on the hill...
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