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Do we all know who Sadie Sink is playing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day ? The common consensus is that the Stranger Things star will be portraying X-Men icon Jean Grey in the MCU – with Marvel Studios and Sony largely keeping schtum on any speculation.

Of course, we've been here before. The lead-up to Spider-Man: No Way Home was filled with virtual column inches and frenzied social media chatter about Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Men swinging in from their corner of the multiverse. That, as we now know, turned out to be true.

Now, Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal has compared the two, suggesting that the spoiler lockdown on the identity of Sadie Sink's character is due to keeping the audience in suspense for as long as possible.

"When we had the three Spideys in the last movie, and it was the worst-kept secret in Hollywood, everybody sort of pretended not to know, but knew," Pascal said in the new issue of SFX magazine .

Pascal added, "I think people love to be surprised. They don’t really want to know everything. They want the experience of what movies give you, which is shock and awe and surprise. So I think in the same way that we’ve been really disciplined, I think that’s what the audience is also craving."

Sink previously confirmed that Brand New Day was completely under wraps, to the point where she wasn't even handed a script until she landed in London for filming. The actor has also been bemused by the sheer amount of chatter surrounding her role, admitting she "didn't realize" there would be such a conversation around the identity of the mystery character.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Mark Ruffalo, and Jacob Batalon, opens in cinemas on July 31.

For more, check out the upcoming Marvel movies in the works. If you're still behind in the MCU, you'll need our guide on how to watch the Marvel movies in order .

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Last month at the PC Gaming Show we got to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at Total War: Warhammer 40,000 including glimpses of a battle between the Astra Militarum and orks. The video above, revealed at BiliBili World, is a more detailed look at the same battle in the Armageddon Theatre campaign, and looks sick as hell.

Though I'm not convinced my PC will be able to run it. Seeing the framerate drop when the explosions go off and limbs start flying through the air has me looking at my wallet in concern.

While the spectacle looks neat, once again the part I'm most interested in is the cover system. A couple of minutes into that video, you can see the player send infantry into barricades and it looks like they dynamically split into smaller squads to suit the cover available, and to take advantage of cover provided on the upper storey of a ruined building.

Then the ogryns come along and stomp through a bunch of it. Like the sentinel walkers in an earlier part of the footage, the hefty lads trash barricades they pass through while the regular infantry are animated vaulting over them. Looks like we'll have to be careful to maneuver around any protection we want to preserve for the sake of keeping the little guys alive.

Though maybe that's not in character. As the narrator says watching a barrage rain destruction on one and all, "These men did their duty." The average Imperial Guardsmen has an estimated life expectancy of 15 hours in combat, and once you've done your duty tying down enemies with jump-packs long enough for the artillery to load, well, both you and your cover are expendable.

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