The talk: Brenda Laurel on games for girls The year: 1998 Pulled from the archive, Brenda Laurel’s TED1998 talk addresses the gender imbalance in the video game market and what her company, Purple Moon, is doing about it. |
The talk: Torsten Reil builds better animations The year: 2003 A decade ago, Torsten Reil debuted his animation technology in a TED talk. It’s hard to imagine today’s games and films without it. |
The talk: Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game The year: 2007 Will Wright demos Spore, a game that went on to be a computer game sensation, at TED2007. |
The talk: Johnny Lee demos Wii remote hacks The year: 2008 Johnny Lee showcases alternate purposes for the Wii remote, enhancing both learning and gaming, at TED2008. |
The talk: Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy The year: 2010 On the TEDGlobal stage, Peter Molyneux shows how the new Xbox Kinect lets users interact with technology in new and exciting ways. |
The talk: Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain The year: 2010 In his TEDGlobal talk, Tom Chatfield explains why our brain likes gaming and how those methods can be used to make us like other, more arduous activities. |
The talk: Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code The year: 2012 Mitch Resnick says consuming media without coding is like reading without writing. In his TEDxBeaconStreet talk, he advocates for kids to code. |
The talk: Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life The year: 2012 After a traumatic brain injury left her suicidal, Jane McGonigal created SuperBetter, a video game to help emotionally heal the ill. She explains how it works and uses it to give the audience 7.5 minutes of extra life in this TEDGlobal 2012 talk. |
And a bonus talk from the year 2010: Gabe Zichermann’s “How gaming makes kids smarter.” Think all gamers are lazy and unmotivated? Gabe Zichermann explains why video games are actually making kids productive, problem-solvers in his TEDxKids@Brussels talk.
PS: TED has lots more talks on video games and gaming — this search will uncover them.