News Archive

Today, we'd like to take a look at some Harvest statistics. We'll start with a breakdown of the challenges and seeds, and will continue with crafts, Avatar of the Grove and more statistics next week! Read More.

We're continuing to showcase Harvest-themed artwork, submitted by the community to our latest competition. If you're interested in participating - you still have plenty of time to do so as the competition ends on the 10th of August (PDT). In the meantime, check out the highlights we've selected for today. Read More.

This September will mark ten years since we first announced Path of Exile and the start of a decade of sharing news with you. With this milestone coming up, we've been looking back on past posts with a feeling of nostalgia. We found this post and wondered what it would look like if we recreated these screenshots in Path of Exile's current version. Check out the results! Read More.

One of our narrative designers, Matt, has taken a moment to share his insight into some of the challenges we look to overcome when adding new stories to an existing timeline. Read More.

Our players never cease to amaze us with their creativity in building hideouts. In Harvest, we introduced a bunch of new hideout decorations, including water, snow and grass planes, and we were happy to see that some of you have already created interesting hideouts based on those decorations. For this news post we've selected several hideouts, submitted to our Hideout Showcase forum section since the launch of the Harvest expansion. Check them out by watching this video! Read More.

Last week we commenced a fan art competition that encouraged our community to create and share their Path of Exile themed artwork! While there are several weeks remaining in the competition, we've already received many awesome submissions. Check out some of the highlights from the competition so far in today's news post. Read More.

In continuation of our Developer Interview news series, we took a moment to chat with Eben from our community team about his work with Grinding Gear Games. Many of you will already be familiar with Eben's work on trailers, skill demonstrations, microtransaction videos and more! If you're interested to get to know more about the guy behind the camera, check out this interview. Read More.

We introduced a new system for graphical Bloom in Path of Exile: Harvest. As there has been some community feedback on this system recently, we wanted to explain the changes and what options there are for it in the future. Read More.

This weekend, Grinding Gear Games Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chris Wilson will appear as a guest on the community-run podcast Baeclast with TarkeCat! They'll be taking a deep dive into the item design philosophy in Path of Exile. We're looking forward to the discussion and hope to see you there! Read More.

The Thaumaturgy Hideout creates a base for those who love the steampunk vibes generated from the microtransactions introduced in the Thaumaturgy Mystery Box! Check out the video or get yours here! Read More.