Path of Exile News

Community Showcase

Our players never cease to amaze us not only with their builds but also with the Path of Exile inspired fan art they create. We've selected several entries recently submitted to our forum and social media as well as some Twitch clips that we found entertaining to share with the wider community.

Witch Cosplay by envatilea

Sirus Fan Art by SMOKOwita

'Hey Rookie!' by timqq

Click here to watch Twitch clips.

Hideout Competition Highlights

Last week we started our Hideout Competition and have already received dozens of awesome submissions! To give you some inspiration, we'll be showcasing some of the entries in the coming weeks. For today's news post we recorded a video with several hideouts submitted by our players since the start of the competition.

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Here is a list of hideouts featured in this video:

Luxurious Forest by TeIvanni
Core of the Atlas by NinetailClover
Murder House - A Place for Everyone by AzazeIIe
Inferno Gate and Outer Gods Feast by SoLPoe
Snowy Celestial Hideout by samuraijkeee
Untainted Paradise by lexblack
Exalted Space Station by Qxid
Divided Hideout by unoF
Garden by Elpenor

Path of Exile 3.13 release date delayed due to Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed to December 10. The Path of Exile 3.13 release date was due to land on December 11. The developers at Grinding Gear Games are confident that the studio will have the new expansion finished in time to make that original date, but they're pushing 3.13 into January so that you can play CD Projekt's latest instead.

"Our new development methodology gives us confidence that we'd be able to hit this [December 11] date with a high quality expansion," the devs say in the announcement. "Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now be released on December 10. We do not want to put our players in a position of having to choose between these two games, so we have decided to step out of the way and delay the release of Path of Exile 3.13 until January."

The devs "still expect to finish 3.13 by early/mid-December. The scope of this expansion will remain unchanged. During the month of delay before release, we will start work on the 3.14 expansion." The studio's internal development schedule is not changing in 2021, but the release cadence is likely to shift as a result of the push.

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3.13 Launch Delayed until January

We were previously targeting a launch date of December 11 for our 3.13 end-game expansion. As we discussed last week, our new development methodology gives us confidence that we'd be able to hit this date with a high quality expansion. Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will now be released on December 10. We do not want to put our players in a position of having to choose between these two games, so we have decided to step out of the way and delay the release of Path of Exile 3.13 until January.

We still expect to finish 3.13 by early/mid-December. The scope of this expansion will remain unchanged. During the month of delay before release, we will start work on the 3.14 expansion.

So that you still have some interesting Path of Exile stuff to play over the Christmas/New Year break, we're planning to run at least one multi-week event (for example, Flashback). We'll confirm details of these event(s) once we have put together a plan.

While this delay will hopefully not affect our development schedule, it will probably cause our release schedule to change a little bit during 2021. We'll post details about this as soon as we have more information about these dates and when we'll be announcing 3.13.

In the meantime, let's all get out our Albino Rhoa Feathers and pray to Kuduku that they don't delay again.

Microtransactions Concept Art

We've prepared several pieces of concept art of the cosmetic effects released since the launch Heist. If you liked the Glimmerwood, Temple and Darkwood microtransaction series or if you're interested in seeing the work of our art team, check out the concept art below.