Welcome!

My name is Kristine Ask and I am a PhD student at NTNU studying online culture in MMORPGs. I am not always sure when I am a gamer and when I am a researcher, but then perhaps I am not supposed to always separate them. This site will tell about my work and my passion for games.

Raiding is to be on top of the pile. But what pile to choose?

The time of raiding being equalled with hardcore is perhaps gone, but there seems to be a scale where casual soloplay is at one end and doing world first is at the other. However, for the parts inbetween its so blurry that its very sweet to see how the one and same guild can hold [...]

Industrial Gaming: Making money from games by not using them as games

Recently I attended the track Industrial Gaming at a conference here i Trondheim. The idea behind Industrial Gaming is for another industry then the Gaming Industry to benefit from developments that are done in and around computergames.
If you haven’t heard about it before, here is a brief into. As a field its just in it’s [...]