Video Briefly: Anti Piracy Push, Comic-Con 2014 Highlights, Mad Max Trailer

Brief video items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Everything you need to know about the Government’s piracy plan, Comic-Con 2014 cosplay highlights, vintage cybersex from 1997.

  • Here are 14 things you might not know about the Legend Of Zelda.
  • Click here to see the latest trailer to Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated science-fiction epic Interstellar. If you like thought provoking sci-fi that’s light on explosions, this could be one to watch.
  • Pollen is a first-person video game specifically designed for the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset. It looks like it focuses primarily on exploration in a science fiction universe that we cannot wait to step into. Check out the first video footage here.
  • Gamers took their sweet time making the inevitable “Peaches” joke for Mario Kart 8. But this video by YouTuber Linkums is clever enough that it’s fair to say it was worth the wait.
  • Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver has launched a blistering attack on the the United States’ handling of its nuclear weapons stockpile. Terrifyingly, its arsenal of warheads exceeds 4800 and can be controlled with “LP-sized floppy disks”. Click here to watch the video.
  • One of the weirdest announcements at this year’s Comic-Con was the upcoming crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy. Click here to see the footage.
  • After years of tortured production, Mad Max: Fury Road is finally revving towards cinema screens in 2015. Here is the first official trailer.
  • Want bigger boobs without cosmetic surgery? Here.
  • Here are all the cosplay highlights from Comic Con 2014.
  • Marc Fennell and The Feed on SBS 2 have put together one of the handiest piracy explainers out there. It covers everything from the problems with content availability in Australia, right through to the Attorney General’s leaked discussion paper that aims to combat the piracy problem in Australia. Click here to watch the video.
  • This stomach-churning video is from the point-of-view of a GoPro action cam taped to a car’s tyre and flung around at 70 kilometres per hour. Bleurgh.
  • This week’s top comedy video: 1-800-Adopt-A-Dude.
  • From Pac-Man to Tetris to Doom to Final Fantasy VII to Metal Gear to Halo to Uncharted, not to mention everything in between, this man sings his heart out about video games. Cool.
  • Nowadays, it’s easy to have sexytimes on the internet. Probably a little too easy, to be honest. But, back in the olden days of the late 1990s, it was a little more challenging.

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