The Xbox Game Pass library is much improved

Rocket League and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 came to Xbox Game Pbad this week. Game Pbad allows you to pay $ 10 a month to access a library of over 100 Xbox games. As long as you keep your subscription active, you can download and read any of them. Game Pbad was an interesting idea when Microsoft introduced it last summer, but now it 's awesome.

Rocket League does not need to be introduced, but I think it's necessary to reiterate just how awesome this game is. For reasons known only to the Internet gremlins who actually run Kotaku's com dot, it's not on the site's list of the 12 best games of Xbox One, but if there was a list of Kotaku ] best Xbox One games, you can bet your rocket powered football cars, it would be there. I do not think I have ever encountered a game outside of a Smash Bros. or Mario Kart who feels like potentially timeless.

Vermintide 2 meanwhile, is a game about slaughtering men of giant rats in exchange for a rare loot. He came out earlier this year on PC, and in the short time that I've spent since he hit the Xbox One yesterday, he played well under the occasional stutter. The light that shines through grimacing trees and dilapidated medieval towns is superb, and the sensation of mingled in the heads of oversized rodents, demonic knights, and giant barbarians is on hand. Like Rocket League Vermintide 2 is something that you can spend weeks going by and not feeling cheated, which I plan to do for the rest of the month.

But these are just the two most recent additions to Game Pbad. There are currently over a hundred other games in the library. Some of them I have never heard of, and many others that I know for a fact are not worth your time. One group is surprisingly good though, and these include, but are not limited to:

• Fallout 4
• Gears of War 4
• Halo 5
• Sunset Overdrive
• Limbo
• Collection Mega Man Legacy 1 & 2
• Metro Last Light Redux
• Terraria
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
• Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
• State of Decay 2

There is also a huge array of Xbox 360 and original Xbox games, some of which are very good, like Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic and Fable II . These games are nice to have easy access without having to actually commit to buying them on the Microsoft Store. (You can see the full list here.) From time to time the composition changes when different editors decide to add new games or draw others, like Overcooked ] which is unfortunately retired at the end of this month. Currently, however, the library has seemed stronger than it has ever been since its launch, and many more important games have been added in recent months ( The Division The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 4 were all added at this year's E3).

A few weeks ago it was Anniversary of Banjo-Kazooie . The bear backpack and the duo of birds were celebrating their 20th anniversary since their release on the N64. I read Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo and epic discussion of alum Patrick Klepek on the game and was just looking forward to playing it, so I even scanned Craigslist for a few Desperate minutes to see if anyone within a 15-mile radius was unloading the console, the game, or I hope both. Later in the evening, I started my Xbox and started looking for something else to play. I see so much box art for as many games through so many screens that it barely records, but several rows in the Game Pbad backlog that I have spotted Banjo-Kazooie . Of course: Microsoft owns Rare now. Rare Replay was released a few years ago. I did not need the old N64 of the unknown to play Banjo-Kazooie just 10 minutes to download it from Game Pbad.

Netflix started in 1997, and by the mid-aghas had begun to pivot to streaming. In a few years, the quintoxic question that everyone liked to ask was, "And there was a Netflix for games?" Well, we have services like Game Pbad or EA Access (and Origin Access on PC ). This is not streaming video-on-demand games like PlayStation Now or Nvidia's GeForce Now, but the year of our Lord 2018 accomplishes the same without latency problems or the constant threat of weird technical hiccups . Hope that Sony, Nintendo and Steam are launching similar programs while waiting for the arrival of the ideal streaming.