Update: It’s over! We’ll be contacting the winner and creating new in-game materials reflecting his or her name. Stay tuned!
You know who’s lucky? Irrational Games staffers. Not only do they get to work on games like BioShock, Freedom Force and System Shock 2, they get to have their names written into the fiction. Jerks.
You might even recall establishments like Sinclair Spirits and Robertson’s Tobaccoria in BioShock. Those were named after staffers Scott Sinclair and Shawn Robertson.
Here’s the thing about BioShock Infinite: Now it’s your turn.
With our new game we also want to pay tribute to our community. That’s why we’re giving one of you the chance to become immortalized within the world of Columbia! You could end up as the namesake of a building, a character, a business–whatever our artists come up with. It’s the ultimate bragging rights.
The submission period ended April 13 at 11:59PM Eastern Time. The winner will be announced in the coming weeks.
francescosaveriogiordano | April 10, 2011 10:49 am
Francesco Saverio Giordano….There is no better name! and this game need to have an italian name!
patrickills | April 10, 2011 11:37 am
goodluck
bioshockways | April 10, 2011 11:42 am
Good idea!
Good luck
xpert434 | April 10, 2011 2:14 pm
Good luck everyone
levaigabor24 | April 10, 2011 3:41 pm
My name is Gábor Lévai in Hungary. My family name Lévai… HeHe Try to say it! not easy…
thebabelover | April 10, 2011 3:50 pm
What about Norway?
carloslarios | April 10, 2011 4:02 pm
A Spanish name! Carlos Larios Perdones, is a name with strength and style!
cristiannatullo | April 10, 2011 4:46 pm
Cristian Natullo
mercilessink | April 10, 2011 5:00 pm
Annathalia Cempaka Nalapraya — sorry if it’s too long I don’t mind you guys shorten it. But anyway, good luck to everyone who entered!
tenac1ous | April 10, 2011 5:47 pm
Good luck everyone!!
xenvasvelzco | April 10, 2011 6:08 pm
alejandro
guybot360 | April 10, 2011 7:28 pm
i have to admit i tryed to submit twice
cant blame a guy for trying
morrisex | April 10, 2011 8:32 pm
Morris Pendenza, i’m glad if this name would remind u some sort of italian-american guy, maybe some sort of Pope, some trashy man of something weird or whatever i mean, my fantasy keeps running, but the choice is urs, anyways, Morris Pendenza, italian-american man that could works for anything
marlonthompson | April 10, 2011 8:41 pm
For a game that will be sold internationally it sucks that I am not eligible to enter because I am from the Caribbean
phoenixrising | April 10, 2011 8:52 pm
i wanted to win this but from looking at the comments there are soooo many people with cooler names then me…you all deserve to win!
itsxetatime has the coolest first name ever!
jendon | April 10, 2011 8:55 pm
Interesting and perhaps successful strategy. Successful in what way? Well that has yet to be seen. Anyway, sweet deal! Even if I don’t get in, it will be awesome to see someone else’s name in there and be like, “That’s awesome!” Yeah this game will be fascinatingly amazing.
marcusvinciussousa | April 10, 2011 9:13 pm
Marcus Vinícius Sousa, a Brazilian name for this beautiful franchise … Good luck to all bioshock fans.. =D
jordanmillward | April 10, 2011 9:51 pm
Unlucky then Marcus – you should check the rules (as should a few others who have submitted entries):
“Participants must be (a) legal residents of the 50 United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Luxemborg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, and (b) 18 years of age. ”
There are at least a dozen or so people who have posted in the comments who can’t actually enter, such as those from Brazil and Hungary.
Sorry guys, but rules are rules
marcusvinciussousa | April 10, 2011 11:29 pm
ok.. bye =(
But i still love Bioshock.
nickmerritt | April 10, 2011 9:59 pm
Forget putting my name in the game…put ME in the game. I’ll grow a mustache, wear a pocket watch and use pomade!
quancro | April 11, 2011 2:06 am
i like this…
great idea…
halloexcentrico | April 10, 2011 10:19 pm
I love this things but I never win
quancro | April 11, 2011 12:57 am
good luck to every one
quancro | April 11, 2011 1:02 am
hooo so looks like my name will not count .. because i am from guatemala. ….so sad .. well rules are rules
sebastiandelacruz | April 11, 2011 1:30 am
Mario Sebastian Melendez De La Cruz
johnbiermeier | April 11, 2011 1:34 am
Good luck to everyone. Lets hope we get some cool names in.
jessehornick | April 11, 2011 1:44 am
~Jesse Lewis Hornick~
Come on! Not too common sounding, not too obscure. It’s perfect! Ha ha.
faerfoll | April 11, 2011 3:21 am
My name is Kazin Michle. add me please))
romainhervier | April 11, 2011 3:34 am
Romain Gilbert Ningkan HERVIER, French.
Actually, only Gilbert HERVIER sounds really french !
alexandraducos | April 11, 2011 4:01 am
Alexandra Ducos, a french name. Why not ?
sunjammer | April 11, 2011 4:36 am
Oh right, my actual name
“Andreas Rønning”
Big up Norway Ø massive! My latrine suggestion stands. The Andreas Rønning.
piranha | April 11, 2011 6:10 am
Good idea… Interesting and perhaps successful strategy…
Good luck everyone
tophat | April 11, 2011 6:11 am
“Eric Pany”, PANY is a short and very old family name from South-Bohemia around the area of Krumau / Krumlov, which belonged in the old days to the Austrian Imperial & Royal Empire.
. So please Irrational Games put my name in because everybody in the game needs hats and clothes 
.
When i look at my family tree -> during the 19th Century some of my forefathers were master tailors or hatters = So I would feel very happy if my family name would be the brand name of Hats or Clothes. Because in the old days Hats were very popular and everybody wore a hat, Gentlemen, Ladies, poor people and rich people
btw: @ Irrational Games: you’re awesome!!!
jonmichael | April 11, 2011 6:20 am
I HAVE SUCH A GENERIC NAME! Frick. Ah well.
bigbadazz | April 11, 2011 6:25 am
Grab Alexander Vladimirovich
yay
marcooliva | April 11, 2011 7:18 am
marco oliva classic name italian
massimilianomarino | April 11, 2011 7:24 am
choose me Italian Style is better!!!
mebjwjgy | April 11, 2011 7:32 am
Itamar Julian Tulpan, Israeli first name, Romanian middle and last name.
That’s bound to be foreign enough for you
jannikkaper | April 11, 2011 8:20 am
Jannik Kaper is a great name :p
seansigmundkjrsvik | April 11, 2011 9:19 am
Sean Sigmund Kjorsvik, multinational at its best.
English, German, Norwegian.
edgeiger | April 11, 2011 10:28 am
Ed Geiger … pleased to meet you
fischesserx | April 11, 2011 11:18 am
FISCHESSER XAVIER (FISH-EATER in GERMAN but i’m french) easier to include in the first or the second Bioshock
but why not ?
hugin | April 11, 2011 11:22 am
Pierrick Lebreton (Pierrick Odin Lebreton for the full name).
I’m french with celtic ancesters.
Good luck everyone!
And thanks to Irrational Games for this beautiful opportunity!
patrikrth77 | April 11, 2011 11:23 am
Patrick Thomas Roth, I loved bioshok it truelly change the way I feel
About games and opened me up to seeing real art in All the different parts that’s go into a great game like story, mechanics, gameplay, graphics, voice acting, presentation and loved the humor. Bioshock 1 and 2 are the only games I keep downloaded on my console and I sincerely love them both. I’m a dork but I really loved playing them
felonious | April 11, 2011 11:35 am
Andrew Ryan here, would you kindly put me in Bioshock Infinite, k thx.
patrikrth77 | April 11, 2011 11:54 am
Patrick Thomas roth, my last name is supposed to be derived from red in German, and my middle name is after my grandfather who served as an airplane foreman in WWII, I was told my last name was probably screwed up at L.S. island and was probably rose
michaeljskunk | April 11, 2011 1:20 pm
“NICE TRY” ?? …. alright, you got me…. Good Luck to everyone!!
-Michael J Skunk
buckybit | April 11, 2011 1:26 pm
haha – DDoS’d by the fanstorm – that’s a nice problem to have?
Is Shawn Elliott going to be mentioned as his former EGM/GFW podcast comic character? (whats-his-name?)
I don’t need my name in your game. Thanks, though. As a *buckybit* I am all over your code – as you might know already.
lorenzo | April 11, 2011 1:28 pm
Lorenzo Carly
This is beautiful.
Lorenzo Di Giovanni, there are no more Italian name.
Di Giovanni was my grandmother’s name. Palusci was my grandfather’s name.
You have the choice:
Lorenzo Carly
Lorenzo Palusci
Lorenzo Di Giovanni
jordandarling | April 11, 2011 1:40 pm
Jordan Joseph Darling
yeah guys suck it.
pedroanivalcordero | April 11, 2011 1:57 pm
no game like this, stunning visually and the storyline always makes me feel like I can make a difference. Pedro Anival Cordero here to say regardless of winning or not this game will be on my p.c maxed out with my girlfriend on my shoulders callin me big daddy
louislovechildhaggard | April 11, 2011 2:00 pm
Louis Charles Lovechild McCrory Haggard…. that is my legal name, ive been waiting all my life for my ridiculous middle name to pay off…