This past weekend at PAX, I was fortunate enough to moderate a panel with some of the top minds working on God of War: Ascension. While getting inside the heads of the creators of Kratos’ next adventure was a treat, we did a lot more than just talk. The team brought early sketches of Kratos (dreadlocks!) and the first playable video of the original God of War, before the Blades of Chaos were irrevocably bound to his forearms. We also revealed Ascension’s big bads, the Furies, with a close look at Mageara, the "enforcer” of the mythical ... Read more »

Blizzard said today if found illegal and unauthorized access to its internal network. The company said a list of e-mail addresses from Battle.net users outside of China were accessed, but found no evidence of compromised financial information, however.

Blizzard said it's currently investigating the situation. Company president Mike Morhaime issued a statement, which can be read in full below.

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Players and Friends,

Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with ... Read more »

We already learned that Ada Wong has her own campaign in Resident Evil 6, and that you can play as zombies, but now we know more about how it will all work.

With Agent Hunt mode, players will be able to enter the games of others (who elect to let people in) and play as zombies in an attempt to hunt them down. Here are the details on how to access the mode once the game releases in October as outlined by Capcom:

• Complete the main campaigns for either Leon, Chris or Jake to then unlock the Agent Hunt stages for each of those respective campaigns.
• When creating a Resident Evil 6 gameplay session a player has the option to allow/not allow Agent Hunt.
• When a hunter sea ... Read more »

Player subscriptions for World of Warcraft has dropped to 9.1 million worldwide, Activision Blizzard announced today. Last quarter, total subscribers were at 10.2 million. It's not all bad for Blizzard, however. Diablo III has sold more than 10 million copies since launch. 1.2 million of those came from the World of Warcraft Annual Pass.

The upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria, launches September 25, 2012.