Today's news that Tencent had completed the poe currency purchase of controlling shares in Path of Exile's Grinding Gear Games came straight out of left field. We managed to fire off a few questions to GGG's Chris Wilson to learn more about the investment and what it means for the future of Path of Exile and Grinding Gear.

For everyone else in the company, nothing at all. It's business as usual! For me, as CEO, I have some additional reporting requirements. Our goal with the deal is that development and operations of the game are not affected even slightly by the change in share ownership.

We have a really big lineup of Path of Exile content planned that spreads into 2020, so we want to first and foremost deliver that to the high-quality standard that our players are used to. We don't have plans for other titles at this stage.

With the Incursion League coming in the next several weeks, a lot of players have questions about the Bestiary League and what its place is in the future of Path of Exile. "While the Bestiary league took a lot of effort to make, and we spent a lot of time improving the league after its release, we have decided not to retain any element of the league in the core game for now."

This is the continuing effort that GGG is making to bring trapping to new heights for veteran players and to make it a starter-friendly spec for new players. For everyone else in the company, nothing at all. It's business as usual! For me, as CEO, I have some additional reporting requirements. Our goal with the deal is that development and operations of the game are not affected even slightly by the change in share ownership.

The New Zealand Herald is reporting that Chinese megacorporation Tencent Holdings has bought up a controlling stake in Grinding Gear Games, developers of Path of Exile. The poe exalted orb was made after GGG sold up to 80% of its shares to Tencent. Chris Wilson told the newspaper that "the deal meant the company could expand and hire more people for its Auckland-based studio".