News Archive

In preparation for our 3.14 expansion, we've been working on an engine patch to help improve performance. We're planning to deploy this patch by the end of the working week, likely tomorrow. In the meantime, we've prepared a preview of the patch notes for you, which you can check out in today's news post. Read More.

Across two massive weekends, veteran community member, streamer and racer, Havoc616, will be hosting the Havoc Blitz event! Players will compete to earn points for each race throughout the four day event, with the final standings being determined by their cumulative points total. This event is an opportunity for experienced and upcoming racers to hone their skills prior to the launch of our 3.14 expansion. Read More.

For the final poll in our community-designed Divination Card series, we are inviting you to vote for the card’s artwork! The poll will be open for one week so cast your vote in today’s news post.

Within the next few weeks, we will be announcing our 3.14 expansion! At that time, we’ll introduce a new set of League Supporter Packs, which means the Heist Supporter Packs will permanently leave the store.

With our 3.14 expansion announcement lurking in the near future, we can't help but think back to our biggest reveal ever at ExileCon. Today, we wanted to look back at some of our favourite memories from the event to celebrate the past and future of Path of Exile!

Whether you are celebrating a win or cursing at a loss, we love seeing the emotional moments you capture in Path of Exile. Today, we have gathered up some of the most joyous and heartbreaking clips you’ve shared during the Ritual league. Check them out! Read More.

We’ve got five new Skill Effects coming out in the shop today, featuring effects for Consecrated Path, Fist of War, Smite, Lightning Warp and Holy Relic! We’re also having a sale this weekend on Twilight Microtransactions! Get the new effects here, or check out the Twilight Microtransactions here. Also, don’t forget about Zizaran’s Gauntlet Event which is starting this weekend! Find more information on the Gauntlet here. Read More.

Grinding Gear Games is looking to hire C++ Programmers, Writers, Visual Effects Artists, Server Administrators, Level Designers and Animators to support the development of Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2 in our office in Auckland, New Zealand. While we'd love to find a way to accept worldwide applicants, the current situation means that we cannot. We are also interested in talking to Australians as we expect the border with Australia will open sooner than with the rest of the world. Read More.

We're going to be making some further changes to Harvest Crafting with the release of 3.14.0 in April. In short, we're concerned by how deterministic some Harvest Crafts are and how easily players can craft near-perfect items. We don't feel that this is consistent with how Path of Exile's itemisation should work. Before we detail what changes are coming, we want to explain a bit about Harvest's initial implementation and our design philosophy around items and crafting. Read More.

Last week we asked our players to vote for a type of a Watchstone for the upcoming community-designed Divination Card we're working on. The community has decided on 'Any Unique Watchstone'. Now that we know the type of reward for this Divination Card, it's time to determine its theme! Place your vote in today’s news post. Read More.