Grinding Gear Games, developer of the award-winning free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile, today announced that their latest expansion, Path of Exile: Ascendancy will be available on March 4th, 2016 at 12 noon(PST). Path of Exile: Ascendancy features the Lord's Labyrinth, a daily changing maze of deadly traps and challenges designed to test the mettle of even the most experienced PoE player. ... more.

With the release of the Insurgency update today, we are pleased to announce that our community mod project, Day of Infamy, is compatible with the default version of the game and will no longer require players to opt into the beta branch. The change log for the update can be viewed at the bottom of this post. Day of Infamy (“DoI”) is an open-ended World War II total conversion for Insurgency... more.

Daybreak Game Company is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the launch of DC Universe Online (DCUO) with the news that the massively multiplayer online superhero game is coming this spring to Xbox One. Additionally, Daybreak announced that cross-play functionality will be available for players on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system and PC the week of January 25<sup>th</sup&g... more.

BlazBlue Chronophantasma Extend for PlayStation 4 is essentially the same game as BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, which was released last year on PlayStation 3 by Aksys Games. What separates this release from its predecessor, though, is a myriad of updates that include additional DLC, the reintroduction of a character, and a new story that focuses on the events of Blazblue: Remix Heart (i.e. named Remi... more.

Are you a competitive gamer? Do you enjoy fighting games? Well then, Aksys Games has the event for you. Aksys Games and Fighting Gamers at UCI are proud to announce Anime Ascension. Like a well timed 2D punch, Anime Ascension will offer intense fighting game tournament fury. ●Date: February 28th ●Venue: UC Irvine Student Center, Pacific Ballroom C+D ●Entry Fees: $30 venue fee + $10 ... more.

Today Ubisoft and Blue Byte announced that The Settlers Online is now available on Steam. Players of the acclaimed strategy game can now add The Settlers Online for free to their Steam library. Using a Steam account allows players to start the game directly from the desktop and chat with friends, all while building an empire from a small village to a prosperous city. The persistent world of The... more.

The International Dota 2 Championships (TI5) is still a few weeks off yet this year's community-funded prize pool has already shattered previous records with this year's purse currently over $16.5 mil, up from last year's record setting $10.9 mil. In addition to the record setting prize purse, this year's International will mark the introduction of viewing parties in over 400 movie theaters acr... more.

Grinding Gear Games announced that Path of Exile: The Awakening will go live today at 12:00 p.m. PDT. The biggest and most far-reaching expansion of the game to date, Path of Exile: The Awakening takes the player on a dark journey as they descend into the depths of nightmare. Great secrets about the world of Wraeclast will be discovered and even greater battles will be fought. Since the game's... more.

During our last All AKSYS!, we featured BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma EXTEND and we had a blast hosting a high-level play tournament and eating pizza! It’s that time again to bring some of the best fighting game players in the Southern California region to see more fighting game action! This time on All AKSYS! We are going to feature… Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- and Battle Fantasia! All AKSYS... more.

Grinding Gear Games is pleased to announce it has seen unprecedented sales of its recently introduced Supporter Packs that provide early access to the closed beta of Path of Exile: The Awakening. Grinding Gear began selling access for early entrance into the beta of The Awakening on April 28th and sales have set multiple records within the Path of Exile community.  Proceeds from the Supporter Pac... more.