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It's already 2020 in New Zealand! We want to wish our community a Happy New Year and also to take a moment to look back on the year that has just concluded. As is tradition, today we're posting our annual retrospective.

In 2019:

• We launched four expansions: Synthesis, Legion, Blight and Conquerors of the Atlas (with the Metamorph challenge league).
  
• We hosted ExileCon, our very first Path of Exile convention with more than 1400 attendees from around the world, including special guests from Blizzard North, community streamers and content creators, and very real Eihnar Frey and Zana.
  
• We announced Path of Exile 2 and the Path of Exile Mobile project!
  
• We partnered with Kakao to launch Path of Exile in South Korea.
  
• We released Path of Exile on PlayStation 4.
  
• We set a record number of players online (224,000 on our server alone).
  
• There were 30% more hours played of P...

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The holiday period continues, so we don't have any development news to share today (though we're keen to give you an update regarding our current work and to deploy a major patch as soon as possible!). It's also the end of a year and we're preparing a traditional summary of our annual achievements which we'll publish tomorrow. While you're getting ready to celebrate New Year's Eve, why not take a moment to remember 2019 in Path of Exile with us by watching the video below?


Thank you for being part of this amazing year with us! See you next year, Exiles!

We always enjoy showcasing the artwork of our team in a form of concept art. Today we've selected several images of the cosmetic effects introduced in our recent Polaris Mystery Box.







Click here[www.pathofexile.com] to view more concept art.

As you know, this November we hosted ExileCon, our very first Path of Exile convention, where we announced Path of Exile 2, our recent Conquerors of the Atlas expansion and the experimental Mobile project. In addition, over the ExileCon weekend some of our developers gave various presentations where they shared their experience in different areas of game development. We'll be publishing these talks in our news in the upcoming weeks. Today we're starting with a presentation about world building for Path of Exile 2 from our art director and one of the GGG founders, Erik Olofsson. In this video Erik explains our approach to creating the atmosphere, areas, characters and items of Path of Exile 2, and then answers some questions from ExileCon attendees. Watch the video below:

On behalf of everyone at Grinding Gear Games, we'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! As is tradition, we've prepared a gift! To celebrate the conclusion of another great development year, we're offering everyone a free Polaris Mystery Box.

To redeem a free Polaris Mystery Box all you need to do is to open the in-game shop! The Mystery Box will be automatically added to your account. Please note that visiting the shop on the website does not trigger the free box - it must be accessed from inside the game client.

To receive a free Polaris Mystery Box, your account has to have been created prior to today. It's only possible to get one box per account.

The free mystery box will stop being available at 3am on January 8th (PST).

We hope you're having a great holiday!

It's Christmas day in New Zealand and we want to take a moment to wish Happy Holidays to the entire Path of Exile community! Whether you're already enjoying your vacation or still busy with finishing your last tasks at work, we hope you'll have a wonderful day.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for your annual free Mystery Box!

Last week we released the new Polaris Mystery Box. Designed in a futuristic style, this Mystery Box instantly became one of the most popular ones we ever released! As an appreciation for your support, we're making the soundtrack of the Polaris Mystery Box available as a free download.

To download the Polaris Mystery Box soundtrack, click (or Right-click, “Save link as”) on the file type you prefer: .flac[web.poecdn.com] or .mp3[web.poecdn.com].

Speaking of soundtrack: we've updated the Hideout Music Player with five themes of new Conquerors and Tane's Laboratory theme. You can find them under the 'Expansions' ... Read more

The second week of the Metamorph League has begun. It's also the start of the holiday period at Grinding Gear Games and many of our developers are finally getting some rest and relaxation after an incredibly busy year. This week is also one of the busiest weeks for gaming in the year, so some of our developers have staggered their holidays until later so that they can be around to maintain Path of Exile while their colleagues take some time off. In this post we'd like to outline our plans for the remaining weeks of this year.

Here is a list of high-priority issues that we're working on at the moment and are keen to fix as soon as possible:

• Not enough eyes are dropping in the Metamorph encounters.
  
• On Windows 7, the game consumes too much memory.
  
• Non-boss unique monsters in maps are able to drop Metamorph organs.
  
• Sirus' storm can sometimes appear at the entrance of Oriath.
  
• Metamorph bosses can...

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