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A piece of breaking news just burst out from Path of Exile official forum, saying that the game, including its newest expansion, will come to PlayStation 4 on March 26th(PDT), exactly two weeks from now. It is more than three months now after Grinding Gear Games announced the PS4 Release plan the first time. Since then, thousands of PS4 users and diehard fans have been waiting for this moment, as well as following through any updates of this. But Reflecting on the game company's performance, things have been nearly patchy. The game developers, in the past three months, deliberately postponed the PS4 release more than once. leaving a multitude of the audiences disheartened and raged. Allegedly, in December of 2018, there are some crucial issues and obstacles ahead of the program's development where needs more time and energy to tackle. However, in next month, game developers patched that up and the main structure was completed, still, a period of time has been claimed to be ...

It’s the season of looters, in case you haven’t heard. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will offer New Game Plus and its Fate of Atlantis DLC in the coming days, further bolstering its smorgasbord of action RPG content. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 from Ubisoft Massive will look to continue the success of the original while introducing new concepts and ideas (while also fixing a number of bugs present in the private beta). BioWare’s Anthem has been dominating headlines for the better part of last month, either because of its cosmetic microtransactions or whether the full game will be “worth” getting into. Heck, even Destiny 2 should have an announcement about its next “premium content release” Joker’s Wild very soon. In these constant conversations about monetization and value for money, whether on-going support and new content justifies RNG loot boxes, which game will the “hot” new thing for players to waste their lives on and whatnot, there’s a curious free to play action RPG that continues...

Bex, as the chief community manager of Path of Exile, is now embracing her fourth anniversary of landing this role in the Grinding Gear Games. Her recent interview regarding the CM career for the game has intrigued a lot of viewers and players and won tons of congratulations and gratitude. As a former house painter, a fanatic of Lord of Rings' memes, and the current community director and producer of Path of Exile, Bex shared a lot of experiences and perspectives from her work, life, and relationships with others. Here are some of the highlights we've picked up from the interview: No matter what you think about initially, seize every opportunity and follow it through anyway As a gleeful and self-complacent house painter with a less satisfying experience of being a short-lived Game Master (GM) for a niche game title previously, clearly, Bex wasn't really the first option for the position of being a moderator for a game community. Her initial reaction proved that when...

Massive ARPG Path of Exile is embracing the last weekend of the Hideout Competition, which has been initially launched on the first day of this month, meanwhile will end up on February 3. Earlier today, the game publisher, Grinding Gear Games has published the last-one video highlights of the best entries that were created by contestants and assessed by judges, on the official website. Currently, the opening for submitting any videos of your own ingenious Hideout creation is apparently narrowing down and the countdown of the whole competition has already been divulged, if you try to go in for the procession of the contestants, this is the best and last time you ever have.  In the announcement, Grinding Gear Game especially stressed the significance of originality and its resolution to fight against any form of plagiarism. The announcement indicated that a complete copy of another individual's existing work would be subjected to a disqualification once it is found ...

This may sound thoroughly cruel to all the fanboys and diehards of obsolete Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system - but they have been cornered for a few years, and recently what they are rooting for received a mortal blow from Path of Exile. Based on the earlier announcement from Path of Exile publisher Grinding Gear Games, the game will no longer support Windows XP and Windows Vista System in two months. Starting this project off by launching the major update of the game on March: 3.6.0 patch, the game will finally weed out these two out-of-date PC operating systems along with the old renderer: DirectX 9, while it still provides a two-month-long preparation time for all the players who still hang on to the "antiques" to digest and move on to update the new versions of them, or get rid of the game for good instead.  This decision made by Grinding Gear Games isn't out of impulse at all. Based on the information and details given by the official announ...

Grinding Gear Games is expanding its scale. Now, the want ads for several different vacant positions in this company has been put up on the official website billboard.  The positions in this want ads covered a wide range, including community junior, customer support, web designer, senior C+ + engine programmer. In the meantime, all the applicants must fit in one basic condition before sending their curriculum vitae: Currently residing in Auckland, Newzealand and plan on staying that way for a long time. Apparently, all these positions are full time and based in the company. Based on the want ads, this is the job requirements for the community junior position: Has a great work ethic. Has moderate experience in video editing either professionally or as a hobby. Has a basic understanding of social media. Has knowledge of internet culture. Has decent written communication skills. Has a proven ability to learn and adapt. Works well under pressure. Has a ...

Grinding Gear Games has announced their development plan for Path of Exile in February on the official website. Within less than 300 total words written down on, the brief announcement of the next month's plan actually became the blockbuster to everyone else' surprise.  First of all, as mentioning the earlier deploy of 3.5.2 patch into the game, Grinding Gear Games devs team revealed that they are still monitoring the effectiveness of these implanted patches and hotfixes , as well as the running circumstance of the whole game in case of more issues breaking out in some time. Then, the most eye-catching part of this story is the company claimed to launch a press tour for the next Path of Exile expansion: 3.6.0 patch . It's definitely unprecedented and extremely astonishing given that there is literally no record at all for this company confronting with media and journalists previously and the next patch is the first and one of the most significant updates sinc...

Earlier today, Grinding Gear Games has announced the development plan for 2019 of its prestigious title: Path of Exile. As the unprecedented success that the game has pulled off since the release of new Betrayal Expansion, Grinding Gear Games and the game devs team have the prevailing view of a brighter prospect of the game shortly.  The Path of Exile devs team previously took a couple of weeks off from its work by convention. Recently the crew was back to work from the holiday in droves. The development plan is not only the declaration of this year's blueprint but also a wake-up call to their staff it's time to be back on track and throw themselves into another grand journey. Based on the information the plan from Path of Exile devs just revealed, the game planned to roll out four major updates from Patch 3.6.0 to Patch 3.9.0 in this year. All four updates will share the same formula as the previous ones did: Introducing a challenge league, various expansion ...

It's been in the third week of the Hideout Competition for the game publisher Grinding Gear Games and all fans, as well as the competitors in the contest. To demonstrate the highlights that have been chosen from the big-scale entries by the host, Grinding Gear Games made an exhibition in the Path of Exile official website billboard , where the announcement of launching this competition primarily also came out. The highlights exhibition was basically a video clip, which was made of several respective entries after a compiling work. The competition was intentionally designed as a talent show. Although some of the viewers lampooned it as a "Pay to Win" Genre collection show or an "Ulterior Promotion" for the hideout decoration for sale in the store.  The whole video clip included in the 11 different entries from 11 different competitors. Each of the entry has been titled a novelty name from its creator, as one of the crucial factors to be through to the...

A while ago, an interview program to the Streamer fandoms issued by the publisher of Path of Exile, Grinding Gear Games, finished its Second Episode and openly broadcasted it later. Basically, the interview features all sorts of experiences, opinions, and emotions from a group of full-time Streamers spending their time in and out of the game. This episode introduced a new Path of Exile Streamer called BalorMage, who has been immersing himself in the game for over 11,000 hours and fully devoted to streaming for almost one and a half year, claimed that he has a thorough comprehension of more than half of the whole game now. BalorMage, as a professional Path of Exile streamer, acquired an accomplishment that is second to none now and no one else could top. Now, he is the streamer with most hours streamed in Path of Exile of anybody else in 2018. He stated that this accomplishment was achieved by the at-least-12-hours streaming in almost every single day last year...

Grinding Gear Games recently decided to reveal the original manuscripts of conceptualizing the characters, costumes and other items in Core Supporter Pack. Reportedly, the exposed manuscripts is part of signed concept art prints which now is included in Crucible Supporter Pack. The Crucible Supporter Pack, as one of the most expensive and contents-richest microtransactions, needs spending 4800 Points(equal to $480) to get full access and specifically keeps the track of the "singed art pack" and its details on the catalogue. The Path of Exile Signed Art Pack is believed to be exclusively available in the Crucible Support Pack and all five supporter packs' scripts are signed by the artists themselves. The Art Pack will be shipped and delivered by express service due to its physical feature. The manuscripts in this exhibition are generally stunning and spectacular, even though objects between the conceptual design and the final shaping are hugely diverse from each ...

After being suspended for over three years, as one of the oldest and biggest-scale Path of Exile offline competitions, which was hosted by Grinding Gear Games in the game official site, another Hideout Competition was brought out by the company again after its debut and is in the spotlight instantly. Reportedly, the plausible facts that promoted Grinding Gear Games to bring this competition back are the recent hideout changes landing in the game. The Hideout changes were believed and affirmed to be one of the major updates caused by New Betrayal League release, which occurred three weeks ago. Hideout and its correlative activities, such as unlocking, decoration, visiting, are generally considered as the highest degree of customization for Path of Exile players. In hideouts, players can decorate these places with the items in their own preferences, invite anyone else in the game they urge to show off to pay a visit, they can have their rest no matter how long it takes. It is def...

As Christmas came and everybody was celebrating, Grinding Gear Games were hosting a distinctive party over the Path of Exile official forum, announcing a Fairgraves Mystery Box, as the festive gift, will be granted to everyone in the game. The Fairgraves Mystery Box is only available for all Path of Exile Players before the new Betrayal Expansion released on December 10th. It was one of the latest novelty production published by Grinding Gear Games within the masterstroke which was openly called "3.5 Patch" and widely recognized as a two-day-older welcome mat out for new Betrayal Expansion. The Fairgraves Mystery Box features specter and horror, such as skulls, skeletons, corpse-light, gravestone, teleport etc. There are two types of items that are included in this box - Corsair Items and Mystic Items, which have 19 different subordinate items respectively from a pair of gloves to a full-body armor. Most importantly, the Fairgraves Mystery Box, as a microtransaction pro...