Microsoft will expand its Xbox One offerings to 28 new countries around the world, the company announced Tuesday. The offerings started with Chile and Colombia Tuesday, Japan on Thursday and will end the month of September with Xbox One coming to Russia on Sept. 26.

Xbox One first became available in November 2013 in North America, Europe and Australia. Making a push for a global gaming community, Microsoft will add Xbox One capabilities to South America, the Middle East, Russia and more.

Japan, which has been long associated with video games and technology will finally get their chance to play the Xbox One Thursday. It'll be interesting to see if people in Japan stick with their Sony Playstation 3s and 4s or jump over to the Xbox One.

Friday is a massive release in several different areas for the Xbox One. Several countries in Europe will get the Xbox One: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. But, it's interesting that on this same day, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will also get Microsoft's next gen console.

Ten days later, Israel will get the Xbox One Sept. 15.

Then it's Asia's turn soon after when Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan and China get the console.

Russia joins the party late in September but will get their chance to play the Xbox One on Sept. 26.

With geopolitical concerns in many areas of the world including Israel, Russia and the middle east, Microsoft is still delivering gamers worldwide with what they want: games.

UPDATE: Argentina will too be getting the Xbox One. It will come after Russia's release, so it could be October.

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