The film is also out this week

There’s a lot ofSonic-related things happening in the near future (most notably, the debut of the new film), and Sega wants to capitalize on it as much as possible.

The publisher has announced a new initiative called “Sonic Station Live!” which can only be described as yet another Nintendo Direct-like effort. The first episode will debut on February 20 at 18:00 JST, which translates to 4AM ET earlier that same day. According to Sega, broadcasts will happen “every two months on the day,” and will deal with “apparel and goods” (read: merch) as well as information about theSonicgames.

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The first episode is ready and rarin’ to go for that start time, embedded below. Don’t you love it when that happens and you don’t have to frantically hunt down a stream the minute it’s happening?

As for expectations, mine are ground-level low. Merchandise spotlighting is a surefire sign that those aforementioned goods could be the core focus, but maybe we’ll get something game-related out of these after all. “The big one” game announcementis likely coming on March 20 at SXSW.

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