Gaming

KFC's chicken chamber PC is one of its many nightmarish gaming stunts

The colonel can't get enough gimmicky gaming gear.

Brands spend a lot of time dreaming up ways to get your eyes on their products. Mostly, that consists of devising ads for people to watch or click, or events that can be sponsored – stuff that the majority of people are actively avoiding or just ignoring completely.

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Sometimes, however, there's an ad push so inane and thirsty that despite our instinct to disregard product placement, we're powerless to resist the allure of said marketer's bravado.

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