Where does your gamertag or nick come from?

Where indeed?

Mine (DarKmaNiaN) comes from Sid Meier's Civ1. Thats who I called myself in that game. The nick just stuck with me for years and its kind of unique as well. Go ahead and google it. Thats all me ;)

But where are your nicks and gamertags from??

Well 5 or 6 years ago i was barely starting to really get into gaming and i needed a nickname.
I wanted come up with something nice and simple that stuck. So then it hit me, rumors were that the ps3 was going to come out someday in the future, so i knew no one would ever think to call themselves a ps3 related name. So i thought of a couple of names: ps3man, ps3boy, ps3_king.
None of those names sounded well, then one day i said to myself ps3 rules, ps3 ... ruler! Since then it just sorta stuck with me. Google me too! :]

Thats aaalllllllll me.
:D

My username began with Game Maker, for quite obvious reasons...It just stuck, so...erm...Google me? All me, except for some imposter on an unknown tech forum...invisibleII

my gamertag came from one of my all time fav. game series..Resident Evilmother_farter

Mine came from Resident Evil also, but any tool would be able to pick that up.

[QUOTE="invisibleII"]My username began with Game Maker, for quite obvious reasons...It just stuck, so...erm...Google me? All me, except for some imposter on an unknown tech forum...GIJesse77

Grawr, I meant my OTHER username that I couldn't get here, randomscripter :P...Sorry for the mixup.

When I began playing Asheron's Call I decided to make a character of the Sho race who were loosely modelled after Asian people in some ways. I thought it would be cool to see if I could find an English to Chinese translator online so i went looking for one, found it and plugged my real life name into it. It came back with Lin Mukai which then became Linmukai and so my little Sho guy was born and the name has stuck ever since on and off. There is another one i like a lot in shooters that pokes fun at me but being something of a swear word I can't post it here even though it isn't that bad.

To give you the idea, I frequently call myself Dumbxxx in shooters and the name is a good fit since it also tends to match my performance ingame very nicely. I love playing shooters but sadly in fierce competition that is not always enough... It's telling when you begin to be aware of the quality of the death experience in shooters, you notice the death animation, you've learned to find fun in watching the death cam or following other players who know how to play and therefore are still alive while you are not, stuff like that. Naw, I'm not that bad. Sometimes I have my brief moments of glory but other times well, the name fits.

Mine comes from the second boss in Karazhan (World of Warcraft).