Xbox Games Pass gives you access to over 100 Xbox One games for £7.99 a month

Microsoft has launched a subscription service that gives you access to more than 100 games to play on your Xbox One for just £7.99 a month. And unlike PlayStation Now, it isn’t a cloud service so you don’t have to rely on your own broadband speeds to play.

Well, not to stream anyway, because you’ll still need to download the games. However, when downloaded, you have complete access to a game as long as you continue to pay the monthly fee.

Xbox One and Xbox 360 games will be part of the line-up, the latter through backwards compatibility, and considering 2K, Capcom, Warner Bros and Microsoft’s own studio are among the publishers and developers signed up, there are plenty of top titles to choose from.

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These include Halo 5: Guardians, Mad Max, Lego Batman, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and Fable III. Many more will be announced before launch.

The service will be available to general Xbox One users from spring, with Xbox Live Gold members given priority at the beginning.

Those signed up to the Xbox Insider Program will be able to trial the service from today. They will have access to around 20 games to test Xbox Game Pass before a wider release.

You can find out more about Xbox Game Pass here.