Grinding Gear Games has set the opening times for ExileCon 2026, which is now two weeks away. A post on the game’s Steam news hub confirms the main keynote starts at 1:00 PM PST on November 6, with a 30-minute pre-show at 12:30 PM PST featuring community streamers ZiggyD, Mathil, RaizQT and DarthMicrotransaction. That is 9:00 PM UTC on November 6, 10:00 PM Central European Time, 11:00 PM Eastern European Time, or 10:00 AM New Zealand time on November 7. The pre-show and keynote stream free on the official Twitch channel at twitch.tv/pathofexile and on YouTube. No ticket is needed to watch: the entire convention streams free across both days.
What the keynote means for Path of Exile 1
The keynote is the reveal window for Path of Exile 1’s next expansion. GGG has confirmed 3.30 releases November 13 PST, with full details shown during the keynote, a timeline the studio set out on October 12. Curse of the Allflame, the league 3.30 replaces, ends at 1:00 PM PST on November 9. Players still chasing league challenges have a hard stop that day, four days before 3.30 arrives.
The main presentation runs around two hours and covers the latest Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2 developments. The rest of the two-day event, held November 7-8 NZT at the Aotea Centre in Auckland, adds developer talks, live gameplay demos, interviews, and race finales for both games. The Path of Exile 1 finals feature allexpleblord, imexile, MOSTPOSITIVEMAN and Ben_, the four who came through the qualifier races. The studio turns 20 this year, and this update pins down the exact start times first outlined in the one-month-out coverage of the free livestream.
What is still unannounced
Announcement pages for the new expansions go live as soon as the content is announced during the keynote, so the 3.30 page will be readable while the stream is still running. Twitch Drops will run during the livestream, with the reward list due next week, and the full ExileCon schedule arrives later this week.
GGG has not named the Twitch Drop rewards, described the 3.30 league mechanic and its new systems, or specified which Path of Exile 2 updates will appear in the keynote. Players tracking the sequel can still check Path of Exile 2’s full-release registration, though the PoE2 segment has no confirmed contents beyond its slot in the keynote.
The pre-show is a separate discussion block with the four streamers; GGG has not given it its own runtime. Anyone who misses the live broadcast can catch up later: the keynote VOD posts to Twitch and YouTube shortly after it airs, and developer talks and panels will be published in the days after ExileCon so viewers can rewatch them at any time.
