News Archive

We're starting a three-week-long hideout creation competition, the purpose of which is to create a hideout that has a cohesive theme demonstrated through the available decorations. To kick off the event, we're having a 24 hour sale on all hideout decorations! Read More.

This week's community showcase includes two pieces of fan art, a soundtrack remix, fan fiction and a fast-moving Atziri run! Read More.

We've just deployed the 2.0.3 content update. You can find the notes for this patch here. The update added more Divination Cards, some drop rate changes, and also introduced two new microtransactions: Eagle Guardian Totem Skin and Verdant Throne Hideout Decoration. Read More.

On Thursday NZT we're expecting to release our 2.0.3 update which contains new Divination Cards, balance changes, bug fixes and some interesting drop rate changes. Chris has made a development manifesto post with more information about this. We've also released a single teaser screenshot of what else is to come! Read More.

Path of Exile race leagues are short duration events where players compete in a fresh economy to win prizes. With durations ranging from minutes to one month, they allow players to demonstrate mastery of Path of Exile. Today we're announcing our second race season in The Awakening: the Bloodgrip Race Season. Named after the 1000-point Unique Amulet that we're introducing with the season, the Bloodgrip Season will run for one month and contains 120 events. We have also deployed a small 2.0.2d patch. Read More.

Another 12 Divination Cards are ready and will be included in the next small content update. We've included copies of them in today's news post so that you can check them out in advance. If you'd like to create your own Divination Card, check out the Highgate Pack. Read More.

It's time for another Developer Q&A! Our last one was held in late February and was quite popular. Please post questions in this forum thread. We'll post the answers in the news on Thursday NZ time. Read More.

Last night we released the 2.0.2b patch, which fixes a few problems with the initial 2.0.2 deployment. The patch notes are here. This is the 1000th news post that we've made about Path of Exile! To celebrate this arbitrary anniversary, we've put together some of the oldest (mostly unreleased) screenshots of Path of Exile's first few months of development. Read More.

We've completed the 2.0.2 Content Update. Its patch notes have been posted here. A side effect of this large patch is that it affects the Fixed Seed races that are part of the Emberwake Race Season. Because of this, we'll be deploying it at the end of the final race of that type, which is tomorrow. We expect deployment to occur at 2:10pm Thursday NZT. In the meantime, our quality assurance department will continue to test the changes just in case more problems are found. Sorry for the delay! Read More.

Last week we released a teaser of some of the content from the upcoming 2.0.2 update. These screenshots revealed three new pets: the Pukeko, Lemur and Toad. Check out the official videos for all six critters! We're expecting to release the 2.0.2 content update on Wednesday, NZ time. Read More.