Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Undead Unluck anime confirmed a second season the same night its Winter Arc special aired, with a new illustration from creator Yoshifumi Tozuka.

Cloud Art streams Sword of Coming 2nd Season, continuing the donghua about an ordinary boy who splits the sky with a single sword and becomes a legendary swordsman after felling a peerless rival.

Pure Arts' Beyond Time's Gaze begins release, a Chinese donghua following Xu Qing, the sole survivor of the ruined Nanhuang Continent, as a mysterious purple crystal starts him on a cultivation journey and into the Thunder Squad's ranks.

China's Eastern Theater Command sent ground, naval, air and rocket forces to encircle Taiwan in two days of blockade and live-fire drills, its eighth major exercise around the island since 2022, after a US arms sale worth over $11 billion.

Founder Chip Wilson nominates three directors - ex-On co-CEO Marc Maurer, ex-ESPN marketing chief Laura Gentile and ex-Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg - for the 2026 annual meeting and proposes declassifying Lululemon's board.

The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.

Saks Global failed to make a bond interest payment of more than $100 million that was due on 30 December 2025, entering a grace period while it negotiated with creditors, just under five months after its last debt restructuring.

One of the world's largest gas plants began processing associated gas from the offshore Marjan and Zuluf fields, heading for 2.6 billion cubic feet a day of raw gas capacity in 2026, as the Marjan crude increment came on stream.

A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

Former Tesco chief executive Sir Dave Lewis took over as Diageo's CEO on 1 January 2026 on a £1.5 million salary, ending Nik Jhangiani's six months as interim chief after Debra Crew's exit.

Suntory Global Spirits halted distillation at the main James B. Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, for all of 2026 amid a bourbon glut, keeping bottling, warehousing and the visitor centre open.

The base subway, local bus and Access-A-Ride fare rose 10 cents to $3 and the express bus fare to $7.25, while OMNY's weekly fare cap of $35 became permanent in place of MetroCard unlimited passes.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

A federal magistrate judge combined 33 class actions over the Cl0p theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data into In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation.

A second Jisoo-designed edition of Alo's Sunset Sneaker, in a neutral caramel suede she picked, went on sale for $275.

The new federal Dietary Guidelines tell Americans to 'consume less alcohol for better overall health' but no longer set the two-drinks-for-men, one-for-women daily limit that earlier editions carried.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Babcock & Wilcox chose Siemens Energy to supply the steam turbine generator sets for its one-gigawatt Applied Digital power project, under a limited notice to proceed it said would let it deliver power by the end of 2028.

MAPPA's third season of Jujutsu Kaisen begins airing, opening the Culling Game arc as Yuji Itadori, wary of returning to Jujutsu High, teams with Choso against cursed spirits unleashed by Noritoshi Kamo across Japan.

Covering episodes 53 through 104 of the story, this installment continues Da Zhuzai (The Great Ruler), a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Motion Magic. It picks up leads Li Luo and Chen Mu on their climb through the setting's warring sects and hidden immortal factions after the ground laid in the first season.