News Archive

Late last year we introduced our Physics Programmer, Alex, in a developer interview where we discussed the new cloth physics system he had been working on. In addition to this new system, Alex has also been working on creating a new water simulation system. We are still in the very early phases of the development of this but we're excited to share a preview of the work we've done so far. Read More.

Earlier this week we concluded the Path of Exile Talent Competition. This competition was open to all media of work and can easily be called our most successful competition to date. The quality of the work our community is capable of producing is outstanding. In today's news, we reveal the prize-winners from the competition! Read More.

The Path of Exile Talent Competition comes to a close today. This competition has been one of our most popular ever with an overwhelming number of talented submissions being entered. Tomorrow we'll be announcing the winners of the competition! Among many other exclusive prizes, we're giving away four of the original pages created for the Path of Exile Comic. We've now selected the exclusive pages we'll be giving away to our top three winners and one random entry. We are really excited about these prizes and wanted to share them with the whole community. Read More.

We're about half-way through the Breach Challenge leagues and so it's a good time to check in with some statistics. In addition to some challenge-completion statistics, we've also assembled the top ten deadliest areas and the top ten most-played areas! Read More.

The Path of Exile Talent competition concludes Monday the 16th of January at 5pm (NZT). We've had an overwhelming number of excellent submissions already but there's still time to make your mark on the competition by submitting your talent. By entering the competition you will go into the running to to win some exclusive prizes. By simply entering the competition you go into the draw to receive an original piece of art from the Path of Exile comic! Today we're showing off a sample of some of the awesome entries we've received so far. Read More.

This weekend we're holding a sale on every type of stash tab. This includes everything from Premium Stash Tab Bundles to Guild Stash tabs, as well as the new Essence, Divination and Quad Stash Tabs! The Special Tab Bundle that includes all three new tabs has also been further discounted! Read More.

We recently posted the full patch notes from Path of Exile version 0.8.0 to 0.8.7. Today's news has the remainder of our internal patch notes going back from Alpha version 0.7.2 to 0.5.0, when we only kept them as short internal records of what changed. Read More.

The Breach leagues are currently in full swing and we're glad to see that so many players are continuing to enjoy this league! We sat down with Nick, one of our game designers who came up with the initial concept for the Breach League to get his insights into his inspirations for game design, unique item design and how the concept of the Breach leagues evolved. Read More.

The microtransactions that were introduced with the Carnage Mystery Box are now available in store! Among these new microtransactions are the Carnage Armour Set, Gore Weapon Effect, Carnage Wings, Gore Portal and much more! You can check out all the new microtransactions in the store here. Read More.

We're approaching the end of 2016 and what better way to commemorate this monumental year than with a shower of blood! Therefore, we're bringing back the Gore Fireworks for a limited time only! These are available in store until January 10th (NZT). Read More.