Disney Plus's new Big Hero 6 animated series, Baymax!, will be released on June 29.

The six-episode series, once again set in the fictional San Fransokyo, sees Baymax doing "what he was programmed to do: help others," according to Disney.

The company announced the release date alongside a new Baymax! trailer and poster (both of which can be seen below).

“I thought it would be fun to do a Disney+ series with Baymax interacting with normal folks,” said series creator and Big Hero 6 director Don Hall. "In each of our six episodes, Baymax just wants to help someone — and a lot of times they don’t want to be helped. He sets out to fix a physical issue that he's identified, and in the process, gets to a deeper, more emotional place and can be almost transformative in that role."

Baymax voice actor Scott Adsit returns for the new series, alongside Maya Rudolph (SNL), Ryan Potter (Titans), Emily Kuroda, Lilimar, Zeno Robinson, and Jaboukie Young-White. This is the character's second attempt at small-screen stardom, following Disney XD's Big Hero 6: The Series in 2017.

In other Disney Plus news, the streaming network is reportedly working on a new Daredevil series. For more on what subscribers can look forward to, here's a complete list of everything new to Disney Plus in May.

Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.

Stranger Things fans, rejoice: the upcoming Stranger Things 4 will be bigger than ever.

Today, the Stranger Things Twitter account shared the first eight minutes of Season 4, giving viewers an action-packed look at some of the previous events at the Hawkins National Laboratories.

Furthermore, Netflix confirmed that the finale will be longer than some movies. In a post on Netflix’s Tudum companion site, the streaming platform revealed its impressively long finale will clock in at nearly two and a half hours.

“For the real geeks out there, Episode 407 is 1 hour, 38 minutes; Episode 408 is around 1 hour, 25 minutes; and 409 is almost two and a half hours,” the post reads.

brenner: what have you done?
us: we’ve given you the first 8 min of season 4 AND the episode split announce. ⬇️

ST4 Vol. 1. Seven Episodes. May 27th. ST4 Vol. 2. Two Episodes. July 1st. pic.twitter.com/2svkoRAoh1

— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) May 20, 2022

Stranger Things season 4 will be split into two "volumes" for release. Volume 1 of the show will premiere on May 27 while Volume 2 is due on July 1. While Volume 1 will carry the bulk of the season with seven episodes, Volume 2’s two episodes will be the longest of the season.

According to Netflix's post, the season will follow the Stranger Things crew as they attempt to end the Upside Down while still living out their daily high school lives. While the team hasn't officially announced many other details, some finer details of the upcoming season’s plot points have recently been spoiled by Monopoly cards.

Stranger Things 4 will be the show’s penultimate season — the show is slated to end after the release of Season 5. We gave Stranger Things Season 3 a 9 thanks to its eventful plot and strong character development.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

Stranger Things fans, rejoice: the upcoming Stranger Things 4 will be bigger than ever.

Today, the Stranger Things Twitter account shared the first eight minutes of Season 4, giving viewers an action-packed look at some of the previous events at the Hawkins National Laboratories.

Furthermore, Netflix confirmed that the finale will be longer than some movies. In a post on Netflix’s Tudum companion site, the streaming platform revealed its impressively long finale will clock in at nearly two and a half hours.

“For the real geeks out there, Episode 407 is 1 hour, 38 minutes; Episode 408 is around 1 hour, 25 minutes; and 409 is almost two and a half hours,” the post reads.

brenner: what have you done?
us: we’ve given you the first 8 min of season 4 AND the episode split announce. ⬇️

ST4 Vol. 1. Seven Episodes. May 27th. ST4 Vol. 2. Two Episodes. July 1st. pic.twitter.com/2svkoRAoh1

— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) May 20, 2022

Stranger Things season 4 will be split into two "volumes" for release. Volume 1 of the show will premiere on May 27 while Volume 2 is due on July 1. While Volume 1 will carry the bulk of the season with seven episodes, Volume 2’s two episodes will be the longest of the season.

According to Netflix's post, the season will follow the Stranger Things crew as they attempt to end the Upside Down while still living out their daily high school lives. While the team hasn't officially announced many other details, some finer details of the upcoming season’s plot points have recently been spoiled by Monopoly cards.

Stranger Things 4 will be the show’s penultimate season — the show is slated to end after the release of Season 5. We gave Stranger Things Season 3 a 9 thanks to its eventful plot and strong character development.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

A Pokémon Red and Blue fan reimagining has placed the games' classic artwork into a modern remake that will sadly never come to exist.

The @pokeyugami Twitter account, which describes itself as a group "creating fan art with the theme of Pokémon in [a] space-time different from ours," posted a short clip of protagonist Red walking through Viridian forest from the original games.

Instead of being top-down 2D, however, or in a modern 3D style like the remakes, Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, this style blends new and old with a painted-style artwork over 3D models.

これは時空の歪みによって生まれた、懐かしくも新しい『ポケットモンスター 初代』！
(トキワの森編)#pokemon pic.twitter.com/Mm7bF4M80F

— ポケモン時空の歪み研究員 (@pokeyugami) May 20, 2022

A handful of Pokémon can be seen in the video including Caterpie, Weedle, and, of course, Pikachu (who's eating an Oran berry), all lore accurate to the Viridian Forest area. A Pokéball can also be spotted in the background before Red gets locks eyes with a Youngster trainer.

The clip is just a fan project and not tied to Nintendo or The Pokémon Company in any way, so we'll never actually see a Pokémon game look this way, unless the off chance the companies themselves are inspired by the fan art.

Pokémon appears to be going in very different directions though, with the aforementioned Let's Go games and the more recent Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl showing that future remakes will more likely follow a modern cartoon-looking art style.

The Pokémon Company is experimenting a bit though with Pokémon Legends: Arceus being released earlier this year, which threw players back in time to an ancient version of the Sinnoh region from Diamond and Pearl.

The next mainline entries will return to traditional Pokémon gameplay though, albeit in an open world, as Nintendo announced in February that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet would be released towards the end of 2022.

Image Credit: @pokeyugami on Twitter.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Art Credit: Pokeyugami

A Pokémon Red and Blue fan reimagining has placed the games' classic artwork into a modern remake that will sadly never come to exist.

The @pokeyugami Twitter account, which describes itself as a group "creating fan art with the theme of Pokémon in [a] space-time different from ours," posted a short clip of protagonist Red walking through Viridian forest from the original games.

Instead of being top-down 2D, however, or in a modern 3D style like the remakes, Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, this style blends new and old with a painted-style artwork over 3D models.

これは時空の歪みによって生まれた、懐かしくも新しい『ポケットモンスター 初代』！
(トキワの森編)#pokemon pic.twitter.com/Mm7bF4M80F

— ポケモン時空の歪み研究員 (@pokeyugami) May 20, 2022

A handful of Pokémon can be seen in the video including Caterpie, Weedle, and, of course, Pikachu (who's eating an Oran berry), all lore accurate to the Viridian Forest area. A Pokéball can also be spotted in the background before Red gets locks eyes with a Youngster trainer.

The clip is just a fan project and not tied to Nintendo or The Pokémon Company in any way, so we'll never actually see a Pokémon game look this way, unless the off chance the companies themselves are inspired by the fan art.

Pokémon appears to be going in very different directions though, with the aforementioned Let's Go games and the more recent Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl showing that future remakes will more likely follow a modern cartoon-looking art style.

The Pokémon Company is experimenting a bit though with Pokémon Legends: Arceus being released earlier this year, which threw players back in time to an ancient version of the Sinnoh region from Diamond and Pearl.

The next mainline entries will return to traditional Pokémon gameplay though, albeit in an open world, as Nintendo announced in February that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet would be released towards the end of 2022.

Image Credit: @pokeyugami on Twitter.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Art Credit: Pokeyugami

Viggo Mortensen – most famous for playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings – seemingly forgot all about Amazon's spin-off The Rings of Power TV show.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, as spotted by GameSpot, Mortensen was asked if he was going to watch The Rings of Power prequel, which is set 1,000 years before The Lord of the Rings.

"What is that?", he replied. "The TV thing? It is with Apple, or something?"

The reporter explained the show was being made by Amazon and is thought to be one of the most expensive TV shows ever made, with costs estimated to be north of $1 billion.

"Oh, right. Yeah, I'll watch that," Mortensen confirmed, though immediately enquired about the lore. "Do you know what source material they're using? What were they allowed to use?", he asked.

Upon being caught up and learning it was connected with the Tolkien estate, Mortensen's official verdict was in. "That's cool", he said. "It'll be fun to see."

The Rings of Power takes place during The Second Age of Middle Earth's history, a time only briefly touched on in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This is the era when the Rings of Power were created and Sauron was defeated by the formation of the Last Alliance.

Amongst its many characters is Isildur, the ancestor of Aragorn and king who cut Sauron's finger off and claimed the One Ring.

The Rings of Power will be available on September 2 and Amazon is reportedly looking to make five seasons of the show. The early reviews are positive though may be a little biased, as Sean Astin - Samwise Gamgee himself - said he got chills when watching a preview.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Viggo Mortensen – most famous for playing Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings – seemingly forgot all about Amazon's spin-off The Rings of Power TV show.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, as spotted by GameSpot, Mortensen was asked if he was going to watch The Rings of Power prequel, which is set 1,000 years before The Lord of the Rings.

"What is that?", he replied. "The TV thing? It is with Apple, or something?"

The reporter explained the show was being made by Amazon and is thought to be one of the most expensive TV shows ever made, with costs estimated to be north of $1 billion.

"Oh, right. Yeah, I'll watch that," Mortensen confirmed, though immediately enquired about the lore. "Do you know what source material they're using? What were they allowed to use?", he asked.

Upon being caught up and learning it was connected with the Tolkien estate, Mortensen's official verdict was in. "That's cool", he said. "It'll be fun to see."

The Rings of Power takes place during The Second Age of Middle Earth's history, a time only briefly touched on in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This is the era when the Rings of Power were created and Sauron was defeated by the formation of the Last Alliance.

Amongst its many characters is Isildur, the ancestor of Aragorn and king who cut Sauron's finger off and claimed the One Ring.

The Rings of Power will be available on September 2 and Amazon is reportedly looking to make five seasons of the show. The early reviews are positive though may be a little bias, as Sean Astin - Samwise Gamgee himself - said he got chills when watching a preview.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Scientists have found an ancient forest hidden within a giant sinkhole in the Guangxi region of China, which could be home to previously unknown species. It's all vaguely reminiscent of the Hollow Earth from Godzilla vs. Kong... but there's no sign of any kaiju yet.

Cave explorers alerted scientists when they discovered a sinkhole measuring 630ft deep, 1000ft long and 490ft wide, but its size was not the only matter of significance. According to Xinhua News, the prodigious pit was housing a well-preserved primitive forest filled with ancient trees as tall as 130ft, serving as a potential habitat for undiscovered species.

A cave exploration team abseiled down and trekked for several hours to reach the bottom of the sinkhole on May 6. China Global Television Network (CGTN) posted a video on Twitter showing highlights from their expedition to the tree-covered terrain, where they found dense shade plants coming up to their shoulders, and three caves hidden in the walls of the site.

30th giant karst sinkhole discovered in south China's Guangxi pic.twitter.com/52ZxFnyuWF

— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) May 11, 2022

While the enormity of the sinkhole and its cluster of contents may be eye-opening for many, George Veni, the executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute in the U.S., told Live Science the discovery is not as surprising to researchers, as southern China is known for its karst landscapes featuring "dramatic sinkholes and otherworldly caves."

Veni explained that karst landscapes are primarily formed by the dissolution of bedrock, which occurs when the acid concentration in rainwater builds up and collects carbon dioxide. It then drains into the cracks in the bedrock, dissolving the limestone and widening the gaps until, in some cases, the ceiling collapses to create a sinkhole and possible oasis for life.

"I wouldn't be surprised to know that there are species found in these caves that have never been reported or described by science until now," said cave expedition leader Chen Lixin.

The notion of underground worlds has been explored in everything from Shakespeare to classic adventure novels and more recently, Godzilla vs. Kong. The 2021 Monsterverse film plays into the Hollow Earth theory, which posits that the Earth is entirely hollow and in most versions of the legend there are people or creatures living in it.

Some people claim our true Earth is hollow, while others extend this belief by suggesting there is a secondary sun within our planet. The idea has become a staple of science fiction storytelling, and even a popular conspiracy theory.

Craters can occasionally offer a passage to the past. The Chicxulub crater, for instance, marks the impact site of an asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists determined that the asteroid crashed and created a 90-mile deep hole in the ground, which had such an impact that the resulting effects killed all dinosaurs and 75% of the world's animal species.

For more science news, read about the gates of hell and why they may finally be extinguised after burning continuously since the 1970s, find out how invisible walls in space may help to explain a problem that has been perplexing scientists, as well as how newly-discovered fossils reveal the ways in which ancient dogs differed from our own faithful companions.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Embracer Group - the owner of Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and other IPs bought from Square Enix in early May - sees "great potential" in making sequels, remakes, remasters, and spin-offs of these franchises.

Revealed in the colossal holding company's latest financial results, Embracer said it had "further strengthened [its] development capabilities and IP-portfolio" by purchasing Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal which included "Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, and Legacy of Kain and other IPs."

In addition to the sequels, remakes, remasters, and spin-offs, Embracer also sees potential in "transmedia projects" across the group, later referring to similar initiatives from company's such as Netflix and Amazon.

Embracer Group also owns Dark Horse Comics and board game company Asmodee, which "will also enable the use of gaming IPs across yet another media".

Alongside the four previously-Square Enix games mentioned above, the Embracer deal also included more than 50 back-catalogue games developed by the three studios.

Tomb Raider is arguably the biggest franchise acquired in the deal and, while we last saw a new release in 2018 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics announced not long before the Embracer sale that it was working on a new game in the franchise.

The last mainline Deus Ex game was 2016's Mankind Divided, while Thief returned briefly in 2014 after the original trilogy ran from 1998 to 2004, and there hasn't been a Legacy of Kain game since 2003.

Embracer's financial results also revealed that Borderlands creator Gearbox has nine AAA games in development as the developer/publisher continues to grow under its giant owner.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

After stomping through theaters again in 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, the King of the Monsters is trying to conquer streaming as well. Back in January, Apple TV+ announced that a live-action Godzilla series was in development. Today, we have a few more details, as WandaVision director Matt Shakman has signed on to direct part of the series.

Shakman will direct the first two episodes and serve as executive producer. We still don't have a full title for the show, which Apple TV+ refers to as Godzilla and the Titans while also still calling it the "untitled Monsterverse series."

The show follows the events of 2014's Godzilla, where Godzilla and the MUTOs met in San Francisco for a massive battle. One family will have to dive into its past to uncover its secret connection to the global organization known as Monarch. The series is co-created by Chris Black, a writer on Star Trek: Enterprise and Outcast, and Matt Fraction, writer of comics like Hawkeye, The Defenders, and Sex Criminals. Black will also serve as the showrunner for the series.

The untitled Apple TV+ series isn't the only upcoming entry in Legendary's Monsterverse. Last week, Legendary tapped Dan Stevens as the star of the Godzilla vs. Kong sequel film. According to Deadline, Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard will be returning for the sequel, with production beginning this summer in Australia.

There's also the animated series Skull Island, which is being produced for Netflix. Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind other Netflix animated shows like Castlevania, Blood of Zeus, and Masters of the Universe: Revelation, is handling the show. Similar to the film Kong: Skull Island, the show will focus on a crew shipwrecked on the legendary island.

Neither Skull Island, the Godzilla vs. Kong sequel, nor the live-action Godzilla series have any sort of release window. So there's a bright future for Godzilla and King Kong fans, we just don't know when that future is going to be realized.