What Does Your Gamertag Mean?

DualShockers writes:

Gamertag, a word that means alot in the gaming world. For many of us it means an identity. Whether your on Xbox Live, the Playstation Network, etc. it is who we as gamers are. It can be your name, favorite character, hero, or what have you. It can be a very hard decision and you may go through many different titles until you settle on the one that fits you.

[taz8080]

Sometimes gamertags are serious, funny, or even irrelevant. It is interesting to hear why certain gamers chose their alter ego names. Sometimes people just try to see how many X and O's they can fit it.

[Parapraxis]

Parapraxis: A Freudian slip, or parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of some unconscious ('dynamically repressed') wish, conflict, or train of thought. The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis.

LOL =D

I made a PSN nick for my GF's 12 year old bro the other day.
TheGoobernator, I thought it was pretty funny.

[MerkinMax]

This is what sltpoison means. "slt" is an abbreviation for South Lake Tahoe. "Poison" is Spiderman's alter ego in "What if...the others" He looks like this.

[Lifendz]

chosen because someone close to me passed away while we weren't speaking. Just a reminder that all this could be over at any moment and to let those close to me know what they mean to me.

[StanLee]

Stanley is actually my name and I used to be the biggest comic book nerd EVER. I love Stan Lee; without him life would be far less imaginative.

[bjornbear]

as opposed to my N4G / web name, its simply because my last name is bjorn, and i work with graphic design / art...so i'm all about the visuals =D (in my work....) xD

i think gametrags are a good form of expressing your alter ego, or yourself, but i don't get those people who write names like "lfj2094" or "faciktlatx09JE" (not literally but i've seen names that look like passwords...)

[DixieNormS]

because my peter and balls itch

[SixZeroFour]

gamertag - S1X Z3R0 F0UR - simply put, its my area code in leet speak (cause at the time, it wasnt available in all letters) cause when i game, i represent where i live (i know the "S" should be a "5" but gamertags dont allow you to start with any gamertag with a number)

n4g user - MrAnonymous - again simply put, its because im a guy (mr) and i didnt want anyone to know my actual name (anonymous)

btw, i am fully aware that the info with my gamertag basically gives away my name, thus making mranonymous useless...but still lol

[The Happy Baby]

Thats my gamertag.
I like the Mighty Boosh---this was before they were popular on Cartoon Network, and were only shown in the UK.

[boodybandit]

My GT (BoodyBandit) is self explanatory but it fits me perfectly (my wife and friends agree) and I doubt I will ever change it.

[Sarcasm]

I've seen a PSN named MA_KAWK

Is that any of you guys on here?

[Darth Gamer]

My gamertag used to be "The Darth Gamer" for 4 years but recently, I have had a lot of 10 year olds yelling how gay it is over the mic. SOOO, I changed it to "SKREWUALL" to show my gratitude.

I'm not kidding, look me up!

[bigboss911]

the bigboss part is easy. the 911 comes from my 15 year old obsession with Porsche. i would have that name on psn but some one nabbed it b4 me :(. Rpd3 is what i use, if you have not guessed what that stands 4 then you have Not been gaming 4 very long. and the 3 on that is just my fav #. also use ssjtrunks3, demonhunter, mastermiller (my old name on combat arms), and some others i cant remember lol.

[Dmitry Orlov]

Suunart

Of all the races in World of Warcraft (which I played honest 4 years) I really like the draenei one. One day I decided to roll Ally (I've always been an orc) and faced a block during character creation - a name. So I looked up draenei NPC names and just kind of combined them - 7 or 8 names into one. Originally, it's "Suunarth", but that one was already occupied in XBL, so I simply threw out the last letter.

[iHEARTboobs]

Because it's fun to say.

[Philip J Fry]

For those that don't know it is from Futurama. The best cartoon ever. Anyway, my favorite character is Fry and my favorite episode is Luck of the Fryrish. So I put the two names together because Philip Fry and all variations were taken.

[ReservoirDog316]

Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies and John 3:16. Plus, I thought it kinda sounded cool.

[Marceles]

Crotin - the name of a villain on Walker Texas Ranger that beat down Chuck Norris after he turned his back on him

[poindat]

I'm not much of a name guy so I just took the name of the city I live closest to and stuck an "a" on the back to make it original. Actually, my name begins with an "a" so let's say that it was intentional. Yeah, intentional.

Either way, I think it worked out well. Maybe.

:p

[Xbox Avatars Shoe]

Mine ALWAYS have "Fury" in them because Fury is LITERALLY my middle name! It's a family name passed down to me. One of my great-relative's name was "Wolfgang Fury" how badass is that?

PSN ID: Fury__*********
Gamertag: Fury **

Notice I bleeped out the last part of my names since I don't want random friend requests.

[DarkTower805]

The DarkTower is a book series from Stephen King. Awesome series and I recommend it wholeheartedly to everyone. And the 805 is simply my area code.

[Rumor]

psn : TrueRelz

simply abbreviation for my favorite typa jeans....True Religions

[UnSelf]

mine is UnSelfHomicide, and i thought of it own my own

Simply put its: Homicide means to kill someone therefore

Self Homicide means to murder urself ergo,

Un Self Homicide means to not murder urself

[dalibor]

I just used my first name dalibor, which means to fight far away. It's the only one I have been using ever since I got my system. You guys should put your gaming id's in the forum section by the way. Not to many people have.

BTW what is up with accounts on N4G not having their gamertags in their bio? I just don't get it.

[SilentNegotiator]

...I was shocked someone already took "Dustmonster"

I was sort of pissed and just added two numbers at the end.

[RememberThe357]

It doesn't mean a damn thing and no one can say it.

[Oner]

Oner literally is my Tag from back in the day when I used to Tag walls.

Later I found out that Oner had a meaning ~

dictionary definition = http://encarta.msn.com/dict...

on·er [ wúnner ] (plural on·ers)

noun

Definition:

Somebody or something extraordinary: a unique or extraordinary person or thing ( informal )

So to use my "Tag" as a GamerTag was a natural thing to do. And it is pronounced like this currently "One eR", "1R", "Won eR" or like it is above "Wúnner", but it has been used as "Owner" or "Ohner" early on during Highschool.

[Sangria]

I don't like much 1337 5|*34|< Gamertags, the same goes for awfully unoriginal game character name such as "Cloud", "Squall", "Sephiroth" or "Snake", because people love to be identified to a character identity and the darker he is the best it is for them. As a result, you have tons of "CloudFF7 157982" or "XoX Master Chief 247 oXo", etc...

I like short and catchy gamertags. On PSN, I chose Nyoro-n because I used to love The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, where a character, Tsuruya, also says "nyoro~" at the end of her sentences. The character has been caricatured Utsura Uraraka where the parodied character, called Churuya, always says "nyoro~n" at the end of her sentences.
( check this: http://wiki.sos-dan.com/wik... )

For my XBL Gamertag, it used to be "Raziev" as a contraction of "Resident" and "Evil" (because I was playing Resident Evil 5 at this time) then modified to look like a russian name (and inspired by Raziel from Legacy of Kain series). I changed it to "Beau Masque", which means in French "Pretty Mask". It's a reference to a song I love, composed by Lonah: "Je te connais beau masque" (in English: "I know you pretty mask").
http://www.jamendo.com/en/t...

And Sangria because I hate sangria (yes, I do hate it).

[taz8080]

Gamertags express who you are, unless you are Gay and are on Xbox Live, then they take your account down. that was a big mess for some gamers.

[JoelT]

except if your gay lol, either way if you say the wrong thing on XBL you are deemed a homosexual.

[Ninferno]

Ninferno is just a made up name I came up with randomly. People all over the internet have stolen it.

[JoelT]

I really have no idea what my gamer tag means. It something that stuck with me since playing Halo: CE over system link on XBConnect... damn i'm old.

[SixZeroFour]

isnt it supposed to be en-em-y? enemy?

and too bad no one plays halo2 on xbconnect anymore...i wanted to play some swat and ToP with ppl, but only found one server

[Tomarcus]

Mine is a joke from a tv show called Stella.

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

I just finished up The State, and started watching Reno 911, mainly because I used to never catch the show on TV.

Also, why not fancy yourself with Michael Ian Black's book, My Custom Van... Its hilarious.

[iiprotocolii]

Mine was a handle I've been using for YEARS. Since the time when I used IRC. That was the good old days...

[Somnipotent]

My last name + Omnipotent... pretty simple.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

That is pretty cool....

[blazed13]

superstoned13

[Bloodshoteyz]

lol...mines Bloodshoteyz on psn cause for some reason my eyes are alwyz red O_o

[lindquist]

DrBabyCollector.

Because I likes!

[SixZeroFour]

because you likes...collecting babies? O.o

[cl63AMG]

http://albotas.com/wp-conte...

[creeping judas]

Creeping Judas - XBL
CreepingJudas - PSN

Creeping Judas pretty much on any PC MMO I'm playing.

I mean who want's a judas on their team?? Later I found that in a Stephen King book there was a character called Old Creeping Judas.

[QUNE]

I remember seeing a name on COD4 (for PC) called "bathtubshitter". For some reason that name has stuck as one of the most funny ones out there. Doubt that would get far on PSN or XBL.

[FwanK]

My PSN ID is

Der_Kommandant

Command and Conquer was the main reason, besides i love RTS

[GamerSciz]

I look at a gamertag as something to be recognizable yet still completely unique to me. So in that case, mine ended up being my knick name.

PSN: LilSciz

It is based off my last name and the fact that I have an older brother whom is simply called Sciz. So I guess mine is simply a knickname, nothing all that clever because I didn't even come up with it, my friends did.

[SoX FireBlade]

I like it if its a nickname and not a statement like "please waiting"

or starting with your team or clan name and then you nickname like mine

I like it when it's 1 word

[edgeofblade]

Why does it have to be just Gamertags? Sounds like free MS advertising to me... and you know they have the cash to pay for their own ads.

And whatever happened to "Screen Names" and "Handles".

I choose Edge of Blade (XBL) and EdgeOfBlade (PSN) as part of a natural progression. I used to go by Diamond Blade until I was rejected for a clan membership in a game, owing to a bad outing. I changed my name to Edge of Blade, retook the tryout, and killed it.

It's also a clean, unique name, without extraneous characters or numbers.

[supraman21]

Supraman21

Well I obviously love Toyota Supra's and really im not a huge fan of superman but it went perfectly together. It just sucks I had to put in numbers..Some a hole already had just Supraman.Sucks I wanted to be simple

[MegadethAndy]

Nice, what sort of Supra do you have?
Im on my 3rd one. '90 MA70 turbo

[supraman21]

Well unfortunately I don't have one but I only like 93 and up.

[Chnswdchldrn]

Popeyedslugs

it was originally meant to be Metal Slug, named after the game Metal Slug 3 which I owned on the xbox, but that was taken. So the name creator system cooked up this weird name and I took it.

Has nothing to do with Popeye the sailor man or Slugs at all, unless you can imagine a slug with pop-eyes

[green]

My surname + the name of the concept car that made me fall in love with Audis in the 90's.

[TruUnknowN]

TruUnknowN

Originated from two people's nicknames, combined.

[artistadam]

my name is adam and i am an artist... simple...

[sGIBMBR]

My gamertag is - II B0MB3R II and my PSN is - II_B0MB3R_II,

"Bomber" I came up with when i was like 12yr old, i used to play a game on the PC called Delta Force, and i used to just go around purposely blowing up any destructible building and armory.

That was until i become rape at the game ;), anyhow the name has stuck with me for nearly 10 years now.

[FunkYellowMonkey]

funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)

[Wrek Gar]

My PSN ID (tag) is WrekGar. I’m a big fan of Transformers (original G1) and went thru a couple names back in the day playing SOCOM then met up with some like minded individuals. We all took names from the Transformers and have been playing games with each other since.

[hadouken007]

is mine back in the days of snes,and genesis, ps1, all 90%of my game playin was streetfighter,alot of the hood kids always palyed me and lost, and i never lost to them,but me and my brother was playin one night like always started at 8:00pm, ended at 9:00am that morning and i realized my wins was at 95 and i got buck,lol he tried his hardest to stop me from geting to 100 wins, but i did it, and the wins turned to the word champion. And i've used the name ever sence.

[bujasem_89]

anyway mine is Man_DuDe and i put it up cause it was the first thing that came to mind and it stuck with me , and u know why cause its FREEEE :D

[DARK WITNESS]

my tag " dark Witness " i thought about for a while..

i didn't want the usual halo related etc at the time. it kind of came about after thinking about the 3 witnesses from revelation. i also thought about how people see my tag. halo 2 was the game so i wanted a name that would go along with " you were sniped by...." or you were stuck by .....

and ya, the name has stuck with me since and i usually get a few comments about it. my gamer pic ( same pic i use on this site ) goes along with it well i think. again i have not changed it since.

[iceman2929]

Iceman2929 orginated back in 98 when i started to game online when i got the starcraft +broodwar pack for my birthday. I honestly cant remember if it was xmen, or top gun that influenced me to choose the name, seeing as how i loved both ( or maybe it was because i loved both that i could pay homage to both?)
anyways its been more than a decade and i believe im going to be changing to a new one soon. ever since gettin into university, i have been given a new nickname which might be a worthy contender.

[mushroomwig]

My PSN ID is just cute, it's HypnoticMonkey. :3

[deadlyliquidxxx]

and yes, i will own u in MW2

[mushroomwig]

You can't own me..it's impossible since I don't own that game. :3

[idiealot]

Idiealot, I came up with it when I was playin fear on pc. Just kinda followed me onto psn. Although someone has that name on xfire! Grrr if we ever meet in a game twin brother you are goin down!!

[ikkeweer]

So i chose ikkeweer, which just means "me again" in Dutch

[Socomer 1979]

PSN:
MAGNUM-RAM
why?

Because Im Aries & my penis fits in magnum condoms.
I just thought every one should know.

I used to game on xboxlive as RAM MAGNUMS but since the rrod I went to the darkside.
44. Magnums are my favorite guns & I think it sounds pretty gangsta.

A superior name for a superior being on a superor console.
It's the perfect fit( yeah I just did)

[Teh Cell]

Thanks for letting us know what your alternate accounts are.

[BurninDragon08]

BurninDragon08

Burnin=Smoke
Dragon=Green
BurninDragon=Smoke Green
08=Year of graduation

[ukilnme]

It's a saying from back in my US Navy days whenever someone did me wrong.

ukilnme (ukilnme2 on PSN)

u = you

kiln = killing

me = me

Because I suck at online gaming, you killing me is usually the end result.

[DiLeCtioN]

i decided to choose DiLeCtioN for XBL and PSN, it means love and choice....yes very short definition.

[kaveti6616]

Kaveti (PSN)

K is the last letter of my first name.

aveti are the first 5 letters of my last name.

My XBL tag is kaveti6616, but for PSN I got rid of the 6616 because all the little kiddies use 666 in their GT and I thought it was time I grew up. On a side note, 6616 is actually my address.

[Gameplay999]

Because me name is Travis and I am ravenous for some great gaming, in which case ravenous means very hungry so Trav +enous... Travenous and my age 26 except now I am 27 lol

[Captain Tuttle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[XsteveJ]

Well..my name is Steve, and I drive a lifted Jeep Cherokee, known by the abbreviation "XJ" in the Jeep world.

XJ + steve = XsteveJ

[PS360PCROCKS]

alphakennywun

Because all my friends tell me I'm a man whore so my PSN name is alphakennywun or said correctly "I'll fuc* anyone"

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

Just kidding... I use SilentShank most often, and its starting to annoy me, because people call me Shark. ... I am not a g** fish! It's just my two favorite bands squished together, "Silent Civilian" and "SpineShank". I would also go by JakeSanford which actually was real life pseudonym I used in high school to get out trouble. Full list of names below, add me if you want! Or not. Go away.

PSN username: SilentShank

XFire username: jakesanford (currently going by GTADude)

old XFire user: revovlerocelot (usually went by GTADude)

Steam username: silentshank (currently going by GTADude)

XBL Gamertag: GTADude3 (I don't own an Xbox 360 anymore)

[FwanK]

Spineshank and Silent Civilian Rocks! \m/

[SpikeSpiegel]

Its pretty simple actually. It represents one of my favorite hobbies (anime),all time favorite show, and character. The two zeroes at the end are there because SpikeSpiegel was already taken.

Sure the gamertag may be cliched, but you can say the same thing about people trying too hard to come up with a screename that references some obscure novel,film,comic,etc in order to prove how "original" they are. I wasn't trying to pick a screename that stands out, just one that best symbolizes me.

[karan8624]

My favourite rapper and my birth year

Also, some people dont seem to realize notorious is a word. Look it up and youll see why I chose it

[user8737759]

My gamertag is the on PSN and XBL i chose KnightofElemia because it is orginal and I love Ar Tonelico

[HOSe]

because it looks cool and i like how it sounds

[Arkham]

From "DualShockers" and they default to "Gamertag" rather than something more generic? Lame. Whatever.

"Arkham" -- Primarily because of my passion for H. P. Lovecraft's horror fiction (old "witch-haunted Arkham, Providence"), and secondly because it's an anagram of my name "Mark A. H.". Odd, that.

(Yeah, the Batman connection helps too, but now we're getting recursive with the original Lovecraft "Arkham Asylum" and all...)

[macalatus]

My fellow Sony gamers, "Macalatus" is a probable Latin version of my first name.

Sony Gamers Lead the Way!

[ThaOutKast]

ThaOutKast because OutKast is my favorite rap group
XBL: ThaGator2112, because I am a Gators fan and "TheGator" was taken and I just though 2112 looked neat
PSN: gator2112, same story.

[Eric Barrier]

Because I am president! No, just playing
I just feel he is a very talented DJ and Rakim is one of my favorite rappers.

[AzarVC]

AzarVC because Azar means Bad Luck in Portuguese, and a name of a obese eatery around my local parts.

Vc = Videocartel, an old site I used to run.

[xplosneer]

Well, an engineer that blows stuff up, to put it simply xD

I was a bit younger when I did that but it seems to have grown on me and it's pretty much my identity for everything now.

[Teh Cell]

There are a LOT of animal names on XBL. SkilledRaccoon, WetElephant, SickMonkey, etc. I think it's because the xbox suggests you animal names if your first choice is taken.

[Teh Cell]

UKRsoldier. Because that's where I was born.

[dredgewalker]

Well a dredge is a device to scrape the bottom of the seabed and seeing that i love to dig deep on many things it kinda suits me well.

[The_Devil_Hunter]

I hunt devils. Using my JKD abilities.
Mainly inspired from CAPCOMS Devil May Cry. Which happens to be my favorite video game series & holds one of my favorite video game character.

[Goldenarmz]

Goldenkillah is my Live/PSN name, im a martial arts fan and that was one of my fav movies.

Goldenarmz is also a martial arts movie The Kid with the Golden arms but that was to long so i just used the Goldenarmz part.

[BigPete7978]

BigPete7978

Big Pete was a nickname I've had since I played football. The numbers 79 and 78 were the two numbers that wore throughout my years of playing. It's my tag both on PSN and XBL.

[IG_DARKSA1NT]

Gamertags can have a personal meaning or mean nothing. Sometimes the special meaning is only known by the gamer themselves!

[jluth3]

I'm like to rep my country and im a fan of the elites in halo. PSN/XBL.

[Pumbli]

Pumbli is the username I use pretty much everywhere, PSN is no exception.

My dad used to call me Pumbli when I was around 6 or 7 years old, my real name is Pálmi.

[AssassinHD]

I kill people in high definition. I know it is not original by any stretch of the imagination, but it is simple.

[McDaygo]

I'm Irish/Italian. So I'm a Mick and a Dago.

[Stevo35]

Need some hair around that? Cause you cant hit me!

[Kobe_Jnr]

My gamertag is kobe jnr.... kobe is my favorite basketball player and whenver i played basketball ill try and copy his moves and stuff, and some people use to call me that when i was younger....

[tdogchristy90]

WheatBarley is both my psn and my xbl name. It is in reference to kappa alpha order.