DLC Required

About DLC Required

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.

Publisher

SpeakingLion

Category

leisure · leisure · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Jun 2023

Latest episode

20 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Mar 2026

   Behind the Music of Borderlands 4 (ft. Joshua Carro)

   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). Currently the In-House Composer at Gearbox Software, joshua michael carro is a versatile multimedia artist, percussionist, sound designer, producer, teacher, and composer. carro's current work strives to develop new methods of graphic modular composition for instruments of any kind with the extension of electro-a...

2. 

   26 Nov 2025

   Writing Borderlands 4 (ft. Sam Winker, Narrative Director @ Gearbox Software)

   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. You may know Narrative Director Sam Winkler (Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Borderlands 3, Borderlands 4) as a writer on some of your favorite games, or you may know him as That Guy From Twitter. Dive into the making of Borderlands 4, the minds behind it, and a shocking amount of soup talk. Stay classy, kiddos! Follow SpeakingL...

3. 

   4 Apr 2025

   Borderlands: The Hunt Starts NOW! (ft. MystiqueSiren & Paskaroni)

   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 the Storm, our last BL2 Hunt before the launch of Borderlands 4. With luck (and all your support), this Hunt we'll cross HALF A MILLION DOLLARS for St. Jude Play Live. It's INSANE. To talk about why we do it, some of the fun (and not so fun) incentives, goals, challenges, and gen...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

166,829

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

43

Social presence

94

YouTube

86

Engagement

71

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