New data provided by Famitsu gives us a look at Japan’s best-selling games of January 2026.
The top five is actually comprised of only three games thanks to different Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch versions. However, once again, it’s Mario Kart World taking the top spot. The start of the year tends to be slow, so there aren’t new releases here.
Below is the full list of Japan’s best-selling games of January 2026:
The first season of the prequel show premiered last Sunday (January 18) on HBO in the US, with UK viewers able to watch the following day on Sky and NOW TV. It is based on the Tales Of Dunk And Egg novellas, and it stars Peter Claffey as the hedge knight Dunk and Dexter Sol Ansell as his squire Egg.
In today’s edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared a number of new details about Apple’s upcoming software release: iOS 27. The company is aiming to ‘tidy’ its codebase, upgrade older apps, and tweak Liquid Glass – and as a result, battery life should hopefully improve.
During a Saturday interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, the host noted that “the discourse” surrounding the current administration has “devolved into a level of cruelty that we haven’t seen before,” citing the viral video, that was posted on Feb. 5 and subsequently deleted on Feb. 6.
Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming the Chinese company developed its Seedance tool ”with a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney’s coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art.”
The letter, which was obtained by Axios, included examples of Seedance videos featuring copyrighted Disney characters, including Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Peter Griffin and more. Even though ByteDance just released Seedance 2.0 on Thursday, it’s already earned praise, but also indignation from Hollywood studios, when it comes to its AI-generating capabilities.
Bytedance has released its new Seed2.0 AI model series. The story is a familiar one by now: the models match Western AI models on benchmarks while costing a fraction of the price.
The series comes in three sizes—Pro, Lite, and Mini—plus a dedicated code model. Bytedance says multimodal processing got the biggest upgrade in Seed2.0: the models are designed to better understand documents, tables, graphics, and videos. According to Bytedance, Seed2.0 Pro hits top scores on most benchmarks for visual math, logic, and perception, beating GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro in several categories.
