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Path of Exile PS4 Release Delayed

Gabriel Stanford-Reisinger 0 Comments

The free-to-play action-adventure game, Path of Exile, has been delayed for its PS4 release. Announced earlier this month, the PS4 port of Path of Exile was slated to release in December this year. However, that  appears to be inaccurate now.

When we announced Path of Exile for PlayStation 4 earlier this month, we indicated we were aiming for a December release. Unfortunately, we have had to revise this to early February. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience this causes, because we know there are many players looking forward to this release.

This will be disheartening to those who were looking forward to a different kind of “holiday grind”. That being said, we’ll only be waiting about two more months if all goes well.

We underestimated the amount of work it would take to finish the certification process during the busy Christmas period. While we hope to have everything ready in January, we feel a lot more comfortable promising early February as a target release window. This will also give us time to work on game performance/frame rate, which we feel could be improved before release.

A lot can be polished in that length of time, so this may be good for the game.

Does this disappoint you?

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Playdiablo4.com directs to Path of Exile Website

Richard Christie 0 Comments
Diablo Immortal

To say that the announcement of the mobile only game, Diablo: Immortal, went down like a ton of bricks would be a complete understatement. It was so bad even fans who paid to be at the annual event asked at the Q&A if this was some kind of un-seasonal April fools joke. It didn’t help that in trying to defend the game that one of the developers remarked “Do you guys not have phones?” to the fans. Ouch.

What has followed since has been countless memes online and on the Diablo: Immortal reveal YouTube trailer, 466k downvotes compared to 18K upvotes.

And now, as a joke, a fan has bought the web address; Playdiablo4.com,which does not direct to any Diablo related news or website. Instead it directs to the official Path of Exile website. Path of Exile for those not familiar with the game, is a long running free-to-play action RPG in the same style as Diablo. It’s highly regarded as one of the best free-to-play games available that doesn’t gouge players with nefarious pay-to-win mechanics. Instead it relies on selling purely cosmetic items.

Path of Exile is a free-to-play game that is supported monetarily through its microtransaction features. The policy of Grinding Gear Games regarding microtransactions is that they should not confer any significant advantage to the player. Microtransaction features are primarily cosmetic in nature or provide peripheral utility in the case of additional stash tabs and character slots.

Up until now, Path of Exile has only been available on PC and XBoxOne, but as we reported here earlier, PS4 players will soon be able to jump in and check the game out for themselves around the time the update 3.5.0 comes out.

As for Diablo news, Blizzard actually had some Diablo 4 news. Reports of the game changing so much over the last few months meant that they held back at the last minute in closing out BlizzCon with that announcement. In hind-sight, even just giving the game a mention after the mobile game reveal may have tempered some of the heat they took. And to be fair, some feedback on the mobile Diablo: Immortals game has been quite positive according to some publications that have had hands on time with the game. Also worth noting is that Blizzard has gone on record saying that they have multiple Diablo projects on the go right now, so watch this space.

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Path of Exile Coming to PS4

Christopher D. Anderson 3 Comments
Path of Exile

Back in 2013 developers Grinding Gear Games gave the PC world a free alternative to the Diablo series. Path of Exile has since taken off and garnered quite the following. Later in 2017 the game reached its first console audience on the Xbox. Finally, announced earlier today, they are bringing the game to PS4. It’s set to release sometime in December shortly after their newest update comes out on the 7th.

Path of Exile has several interesting character classes with a lot of customization and a very deep leveling and skill system. Some consider it to be for the “hardcore” hack and slash action-rpg players. But seeing as it’s free, it’s still accessible. Check out the trailer below.

Have you played this on the PC? What do you think of the game? Do you plan on playing on the PS4?

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