Square Enix will debut new details and hold "the first public gameplay reveal" for its upcoming Marvel's Avengers game at San Diego Comic-Con on 18th July - but you won't be able to see it unless you're there.

Attendees will need to visit the convention's cavernous Hall H at 1.30pm for a panel hosted by creative director Shaun Escayg and the game's performance cast.

Of course, Avengers has been seen in public before - it occupied a large part of Square Enix's E3 showfloor booth, where you could watch developers play through an extended version of the single-player level shown during the publisher's E3 livestream reveal.

That reveal - during Square Enix's E3 presentation - received a mixed reaction. Criticism was levelled at how the game's visual style and character choices heavily aped the MCU - rather than the original comic books, say - but did not feature Hollywood likenesses.

And, more importantly for me, there was confusion over the fact Square Enix had debuted a linear, single-player level which felt unrepresentative of Avengers' wider co-op, games-as-a-service model - which was only spoken about in brief. (I interviewed developer Crystal Dynamics at E3 on all this and more.)

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Perhaps Avengers' public gameplay reveal will lift the lid on this part of the game - just don't expect to watch it online.