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Photos of GGG's Upstairs Office

Grinding Gear Games has been growing and we've expanded into more of our office building. We're finally settled into our new space and wanted to share some photos with you. The new office space is on the top floor of the building and is home to our Audio team, UI team, and all of our Live Operations (System Administrators, Web Developers, Producers, QA and Community Team).

We are still occupying the same office space a floor down and a floor below that, so we're slowly taking over the majority of the building we're in. If you're interested in taking a peek into a part of our studio, check out the photos below! (Note that these photos were taken first thing in the morning before many people had arrived for the day)

[h3]The right side of the floor is occupied by the QA team - Good morning![/h3]


[h3]Here's another view of QA's space. The audio team's room is situated behind the camera in this photo![/h3]


[h3]Here's the audio team's space with Michael's desk on the right! (Michael is our new composer)[/h3]


[h3]Here is another angle of the audio team's room[/h3]


[h3]Here is some miscellaneous audio equipment with a view back out to QA[/h3]


[h3]Kamil's new office where he's working steadfastly on Path of Exile 2's soundtrack[/h3]


[h3]This is one of the most exciting parts of our new upstairs office - the recording studio! This allows us to bring voice actors to the studio to record them onsite. This is also where we do other in-house recordings - like when Eben records the new Build of the Week videos![/h3]


[h3]The recording booth where we get our voice actors to work their magic![/h3]


[h3]Past QA is the rec room, where our team takes breaks and hangs out[/h3]


[h3]Here is the view from the rec room![/h3]


[h3]Development fuel[/h3]


[h3]Our flask tab in the guild stash[/h3]


[h3]More snacks - bananas for scale[/h3]


[h3]The kitchen - where coffee is made and people microwave fish to display their dominance[/h3]




[h3]When you travel through the rec room, you reach the left side of the floor with more working space[/h3]


[h3]The meeting room is tucked to the right and is equipped with TV for pitching ideas and a whiteboard for outlining future plans. This one has plans for our 3.20 league laid out so naturally we've redacted that from this photo.[/h3]


[h3]One of the Kitava statues that competitive racers won years back[/h3]


[h3]One of the Malachai statues[/h3]


[h3]Malachai and Kitava alongside Solaris and Lunaris[/h3]


[h3]The producers' corner![/h3]


[h3]Here's where our sysadmins sit - aka the home of 'have you tried restarting your computer?'.[/h3]


[h3]A shot of the whole left side of the floor, featuring some game designer's desks[/h3]


[h3]This desk belongs to Dane, one of our 3D artists. The UI team are situated behind him![/h3]


[h3]This block of desks belong to our UI programmers and 2D artists![/h3]


[h3]Finally, this is where our community team sits! You can see Matt working on Build of the Week![/h3]


The Path of Exile: Boss vs. Boss Series

A while back, we shared a series of videos showcasing hypothetical fights between various Wraeclast figures. We wanted to take a trip down memory lane and check out some of our favourite fights in today's news post!

Check out our favourite battles in the videos below, or check out the full playlist on YouTube here!

[h3]Daresso vs. Kaom[/h3]
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[h3]Alva vs. Einhar vs. Jun vs. Zana Free For All[/h3]
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[h3]Kitava vs. Seven Rogue Exiles[/h3]
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Want to know who would win in a one on one between the bosses of Path of Exile? Let us know who you'd like to see duke it out!

Path of Exile Audio Team Q&A

Want to know more about what goes into the music and sound effects of Path of Exile or how they're made? Our sound designers are keen to answer your questions, so we'll collect them from today's news post and present the answers sometime in the next few weeks!

The intention of this Q&A is to give you an insight of the inner workings of the Audio Team, so if you have any specific questions like "How did you make the Gratuitous Violence blood pops sound so satisfying?", then now's your chance! We may not be able to go through every question with them, but we'll try to get as many of your questions answered as possible!

We look forward to your questions!

Path of Exile 'loot goblins' highlight RPG's magic find woes

Path of Exile 'loot goblins' are the talk of the ARPG game's community right now - a description for players spending hours upon hours farming with minimal rewards in search of one extremely high-payout enemy. Many fans say this phenomenon, which has become the focus of much endgame play in PoE patch 3.19, is emblematic of both big problems with the magic find system and ongoing frustrations about the Path of Exile Archnemesis mods.


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Design a T-Shirt Competition Highlights

Our Design a T-Shirt Competition started a couple of weeks ago and today we're highlighting some awesome ideas from the community. Check them out below!

[h3]Meowlock[/h3]


[h3]LOSTVM[/h3]


[h3]AnTiMtR[/h3]


[h3]rapoza001[/h3]


[h3]Tyukid[/h3]
Tukohama's Toaster plugged into a totem in the background, with the Witch in the foreground using her wand (in one hand) to apply a generous amount of butter to her toast (in the other hand). Text at the bottom reads "Too. Much. Butter."

[h3]ickmyung[/h3]


[h3]Karnaros[/h3]


[h3]dmafeb[/h3]


There's still around a couple weeks to go until the competition ends! Make sure you post your ideas and designs in the competition thread here! Good luck!