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.

Boys play with cars, girls play with dolls. Enter computergames?

In the last weeks Norwegian media have been filled with discussions regarding gender in a nature vs nurture debate. The setting for this has been a TV show entitled “Brainwash” (no: Hjernevask, if you understand Norwegian you can see it here) that took a critical approach to social sciences, and how fields such as Gender [...]

Returning to the big issues: A change of direction

For a while now I have been blogging specifically about WoW related topics, going into details, news and other current events in the WoW community – and by doing so also directing the blog towards a WoW playing audience. While I still enjoy ranting in writing about the things I see, experience and discuss with [...]

What if GearScore wasn’t an addon?

If your WoW account recently expired (or you never got one), you would have missed out on the GearScore phenomenon. GearScore (GS) is simply put an addon (user made software modification) that assess the quality of  other players gear at a glance, providing you with a score that indicate the level of items that player [...]