Peace Walker-branded Walkman continues chain of MGS tie-ins

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Be just like 1970s Naked Snake with sweet-looking digital music player

First, we found out that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker would carryridiculous amounts of product placement- strange, for a title set during the '70s, but not out of the ordinary for the series. Then came the announcement that the game would be available with a camouflaged, Peace Walker-brandedPSP, which made a sort of sense. Today, however,Sony slapped us upside the head with the announcement of a limited-edition, Peace Walker-brandedW-Series Walkman, and now we don't know what to think.

Also, as the images from Sony Style attest, you can put the earbuds back to back to fold the whole thing into a heart shape:


Above: Awwwww...?

All cynicism about excessive product tie-ins aside, an audio player that's basically just a pair of earbuds is going to be just a little bitirresistible to pathological technophiles (like us). Expect these to hit the market around the same time as Peace Walker's June 8 release.

May 12, 2010

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.