Gamers don't sit around.

The average age of gamers?

Foldit's gamers solve bio medical mysteries.

Gamers are super empowered hopeful individuals.

43 percent of gamers are female.

What exactly are gamers getting so good at?

And these gamers are helping our lab do work.

OK, good, so we have some gamers among us.

It will bring us up to 1.5 billion gamers.

Gamers are virtuosos at weaving a tight social fabric.

The gamers of Foldit solved it in 15 days.

The gamers of Foldit solved it in 15 days.

They expect one billion more gamers in the next decade.

But interestingly, this choice was not condemned too vehemently by gamers.

And this is a problem that a lot of gamers have.

So there's a lot more female gamers than people are really aware.

We were not real gamers enough, so we had to really talk to them.

These are our virtuoso gamers, 500 million people who are extraordinarily good at something.

Gamers love to be attached to awe inspiring missions to human planetary scale stories.

And what's interesting about it is the market was actually created by the gamers themselves.

And gamers are willing to work hard all the time, if they're given the right work.

I don't want gamers to regret the time they spent playing, time that I encouraged them to spend.

And so, now what we're looking at is an entire generation of young people who are virtuoso gamers.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible, and that it's always worth trying, and trying now.

And in the next decade, we're going to have another billion gamers who are extraordinarily good at whatever that is.

So, so far, collectively all the World of Warcraft gamers have spent 5.93 million years solving the virtual problems of Azeroth.

Most recently Double Dragon Neon in 2012 reintroduced new gamers to this regressive crap, yet again this time in full HD.

He wanted to capture the emotion of gaming, so he set up a camera in front of gamers while they were playing.

But he says that this makes perfect sense, because gamers can achieve more in online worlds than they can in real life.

So he says, for now it makes perfect sense for gamers to spend more time in virtual worlds than the real world.

Last September, the gamers of Foldit solved the three dimensional structure of the retroviral protease that contributes to AlDS in rhesus monkeys.

Last September, the gamers of Foldit solved the three dimensional structure of the retroviral protease that contributes to AlDS in rhesus monkeys.

Turns out, that there were a bunch of male gamers out there who were, shall we say, not too excited about this project.

And if it seems far fetched that tobacco plants could make people healthy, what about gamers that could solve problems that experts can't solve?

And if it seems far fetched that tobacco plants could make people healthy, what about gamers that could solve problems that experts can't solve?

I showed that to you already, like we looked at the fact that despite a lot of screen time, those action gamers have a lot of very good vision, etc.

We've got all these amazing gamers, we've got these games that are kind of pilots of what we might do, but none of them have saved the real world yet.

Well I hope you will agree with me that gamers are a human resource that we can use to do real world work, that games are a powerful platform for change.

As gamers we are now living by the same laws of physics in the same cities and doing many of the same things we once did in real life, only virtually.

A growing cross section of gamers and game developers of all genders are fed up with the way that women are being treated in gaming culture and they're speaking up to demand change.

The game industry is developing consoles that are low energy and that work with the wireless phone networks instead of broadband Internet, so that gamers all over the world, particularly in India, China, Brazil, can get online.

I've been a fan of the Mario and Zelda franchises for most of my life and they'll always have a special place in my heart, as I'm sure is true for a great number of gamers out there.