Path of Exile News

It turns out that David Brevik really isn't working on the Diablo franchise. After the announcement that he was an advisor for a "Diablo-like" title and subsequent shutdown of rumors that that title was a Diablo title, users searched the internet for any hint of what he might be working on. During their search, one Reddit user managed to uncover the truth: [...]

After a few delays to iron out the kinks, the Path of Exile 2.4.1. update is finally live. In a post yesterday, Grinding Gear Games apologized for the delays but went ahead and released the patch notes anyway so eagerly-waiting players could peruse it to their hearts content while waiting for the patch to roll out. “We have continued to [...]

Grinding Gear Games announced today that Path of Exile's latest expansion, Atlas of Worlds, is now live. The expansion is said to add "a completely new end-game, dozens of new areas, boss fights, item types, an entirely new Challenge League, a completely revamped end-game, and much more!" There are 30 new maps to explore and 19 new bosses to take down. [...]

FPS drops from too many things happening on screen at once will soon be a thing of the past when Path of Exile Version 2.4.0, a.k.a. Atlas of Worlds, rolls out in September. Aside from the change to multithreading, the development team has also optimized the game’s particle effect system. Depending on whether your CPU has AVX support or not, [...]

As was prophesied, Path of Exile Update 2.3.0—also known as the Prophecy update—will be going at 1 PM PST today. The update brings in the Prophecy Challenge League in both Standard and Hardcore formats, as well as the usual helping of "new skills, items, and challenges." The full list of features is as follows. New Items: Unique Items and Divination [...]

Following Path of Exile's success in the West—with over 17,500 concurrent users online right now—Tencent has announced that it will be publishing the game in China. The Tencent version will be made available later this year in simplified Chinese. The game's servers will be hosted in China, separate from Grinding Gear Games' existing servers. Due to the separation of servers, [...]

Path of Exile broke their record for the most number of players in the first day of a major release when the game’s Ascendancy expansion went live last Friday. Unfortunately, the overwhelming influx of players also caused three server crashes within the first 24 hours of the expansion launch. According to the developers, “Large launches like today’s one are especially [...]