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.

To study or to game?

Studying games through participation is quite common. The logic is simple: In order to analyse games you need to play them – just like studying literature means reading books, or studying films necessitates seeing a few. Its not rocket surgery… Really…
So, what do you do when studying a game and playing the game – becomes [...]

StrongSquig is?

Fans and gaming

One of the main issues that makes studying games and gaming culture so fascinating, is that the basics are still not quite there. In other words: What is a gamer? The individual gamer is easy enough to identify: its someone who plays computergames and has computergames as an interest. However, if you think of a [...]

Fighting the WAR alone?

Warhammer Online (WAR) has become the latest obsession, and for good reasons. It truly feels like an innovate game with its PQs (Public Quests where the group is defined as “everyone in the same area”) and the ability to progress your character through Realm vs Realm (RvR) combat at any level.
However, the game has no [...]