Path of Exile News

After making changes to their development timeline last week, Grinding Gear Games has decided to push back the launch of the December league for Path of Exile to January to account for the new Cyberpunk 2077 release date. “Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now be released on December 10,” said Producer Chris Wilson on the official [...]

Grinding Gear Games has been working overtime over the past few months to ensure that they stick to their regularly scheduled Path of Exile update cadence amid the development challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the studio, the pandemic exposed just how vulnerable their development process was to “black swan events” and that they will be making [...]

Grinding Gear Games has just announced their plans to launch Path of Exile on the Epic Games Store. Once that happens, players will be able to choose to use the standalone client, the Steam client, or the Epic client without any real bearing on gameplay. The studio will also be revealing more information about the upcoming expansion later today. So [...]

Grinding Gear Games has just announced that the next Path of Exile expansion is still on track for release on September 18th barring any unwanted surprises. The developers revealed that they will also be launching a new set of supporter packs. “[. . ] We're planning to release a new set of league supporter packs for PC alongside the announcement. [...]

Last month, Grinding Gear Games rolled out the limited-time Harvest League for Path of Exile which is proving to be one of the most popular Leagues ever released for the fantasy MMORPG. Unfortunately, the developers say that the current League’s mechanics won’t be making it into the base game anytime soon. “When we designed Harvest, we wanted to experiment with [...]

As Grinding Gear Games scrambles to release the next Path of Exile League in time, they’re still setting aside time to fix bugs in the current version of the game. The developers are currently working on Patch 3.11.1f which will introduce a few quality of life improvements such as automatically changing the chat window to a Trade Chat channel when [...]

The delays and the additional work that went into the recent Path of Exile Harvest League update has effectively thrown a wrench in Grinding Gear Games’ well-oiled 13-week development cycle. The studio, however, is already hard at work on Update 3.12 which should be coming out on PC on September 18th and consoles on September 23rd according to the official [...]

Delayed launches and updates have become more common these past few months as video game developers adjusted to the remote working conditions because of the pandemic. Normally, this wouldn’t be a big problem unless you’re working on a strict development schedule like Grinding Gear Games. Apparently, the one week delay in rolling out the Path of Exile Harvest expansion has [...]

Grinding Gear Games has just dropped a new Path of Exile FAQ with more details on the upcoming Harvest expansion, with emphasis on the new Sacred Grove monster garden, seeds, planting, and harvesting. According to the FAQ, seeds will be stackable and can either be saved for future use or traded to other players. Seeds also have varying growth cycles [...]

Grinding Gear Games is literally counting down the days until the official launch day of the The Path of Exile: Harvest summer expansion. In fact, they have an actual countdown timer running on the official site. It’s not the kind of harvest you’re probably be thinking about though. “In Path of Exile: Harvest, Oshabi is cultivating the Sacred Grove, an [...]