News Archive

As we often do, we have compiled a list of stats from the current Abyss leagues. Today we're looking at which areas and classes were played the most. Stats like these help us smooth the difficulty curve of our storyline content as well as provide a clear snapshot of the metagame. Read More.

We're hosting a whole weekend of discounts on the microtransactions from the Chaos and Order Mystery Box! Everything has been discounted, including community-favourites like the Ultimate Chaos Armour Set, Pure Light Armour Set, Portals, Gore Herald Effect and more! We've created a video to showcase many of the microtransactions available in this sale. Read More.

Tomorrow (Friday NZDT), we're planning to release Patch 3.1.3 which contains a new, faster, Burning Ground effect and some other high-priority bug fixes. As a preview to this update, we're making the patch notes available to share today. Read More.

By late 2008, our founders had put together a detailed game design document outlining the plan for Path of Exile. Surprisingly many of the elements described in this document made it into the full game, including ones that were implemented many years after Path of Exile's release. Today's news post outlines the parts of Path of Exile that came from the original design, and draws attention to a few that we just didn't think of until later. Read More.

We've just released several new microtransactions including the Warlock Armour Set, Warlock Dagger Skin, Warlock Staff, Stormcaller Back Attachment and four new skull helmet skins! Read More.

For some time now, many of the developers have speculated as to what would happen if we pitted one Path of Exile boss against another in an epic showdown. Since it's the holiday season, we thought this would be a cool way to have a little fun! We've put Kaom and Daresso together in Kaom's arena to see who would be the victor! Check out the video! Read More.

While much of the GGG team takes a break for the holidays, we sat down with one of our new visual effects artists, Felipe, to get the low-down on what his experiences here have been like and a little bit about him. Read More.

If you joined Path of Exile in the last half-decade, you're likely familiar with its end-game Map System. This system didn't always exist though, and came about as an effort to fix the various problems with the previous end-games that Path of Exile had during early development. In today's news post, Chris explains the history of Path of Exile's end-games and what led to the Map system being developed. Read More.

We're excited to announce that we've just released four new microtransactions in the store including the Gore Character Effect, novelty Chaos Orb Helmet, Demonic Bladefall and the Celestial Flameblast Skill Effect that you may have seen in the new unique strongbox added in 3.1.0. Click here to check them out in the store. Read More.

In the War for the Atlas expansion, we introduced several unique items that would only drop from the new end-game boss, The Elder. One of our game designers, Hrishi, has taken a moment to talk about his experiences and goals when developing these items. Read More.