Earlier today (last night in Santa Monica, California) Sony's Santa Monica Studio and the official PlayStation blog hosted a presentation of God of War: Ascension live-streamed from the developer's offices, with Game Director Todd Papy walking through the game's freshly-revealed multiplayer component (a first for the franchise), detailing the development process and answering a stack of user-submitted questions.

For those that didn't catch the live stream, we've fished it out of the ether and you can watch the entire 45 minute session at your leisure, here in our video library, or embedded below.

We also have five new screenshots from God of War: Ascension's multiplayer component that you can take a closer look at here on AusGamers.

God of War: Ascension is due exclusively on PlayStation 3 next Autumn (US Spring 2012).