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Some of you may have been fans of GameLife and would certainly recognize who Andrew Rosenblum is. If you're familiar with Rosenblum and the show, then this news may come as somewhat of a shock. According to Boston police reports, the GameLife host was picked up as a result of "an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school."

Rosenblum allegedly wrote these words to the 19-year-old female target:

“(I)’m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It’s gonna be VT all over again,” 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

“Seriously I’m just that demented,” Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: “killing people can change people’s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too."

Allegedly, the girl had gone out with Rosenblum on three separate occasions and once that had ended the harassment began. From the Boston Herald:

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report. 

Bad timing, bad taste, and poor judgement all around, Andrew.

[Thanks to Craig from ScrewAttack for the tip] 


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-D-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:13
-D-
Can we get Geoff's thoughts on this, please?
Danzuke's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:14
Danzuke
ugh, that's a rough one.
Hipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:15
Hipple
Damn, people are fucked up. Fucked up and stupid as hell...
Stuttering Craig's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:16
Stuttering Craig
i was shocked this morning when i saw this. never would of thought he would say or do anything like this. shocked.
deaddays's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:17
deaddays
Moron moron moron. Moron.
witthaus's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:18
witthaus
fuck this dude and fuck guns...this should never happen, EVER!
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:20
Niero
I know Andrew personally. I'm having a hard time believing that this is actually happening.
Rockvillian's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:21
Rockvillian
"Seriously I’m just that demented" is not an excuse for anything Rosenblum. Use your head.
Aaron Linde's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:27
Aaron Linde
Fuck, Andrew. Unless there's some sort of awesome explanation for this, like you were kidnapped and brainwashed by mind-sucking aliens that live in your shoes, I'd like to thank you for setting back gaming's image ten years.
Philonious's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:27
Philonious

If this is true, dude is clearly and obviously fucked up. He also isn't doing us any favours since he has close ties with gaming. Could all the crazies please stop gaming? It'll only make things worse and ruin the fun for the rest of us.
Oxybeles's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:32
Oxybeles
Idiot!
OutrageousToob's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:37
OutrageousToob
What an idiot.
Danzuke's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:38
Danzuke
Is it possible at all that someone had it out for him and hacked his accounts? It does seem WAY out there.
Aaron Linde's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:44
Aaron Linde
Danzuke, if what this girl says is true, he had been harassing her for quite some time for breaking up with him. It seems likely that this, too, was him.
Joe Burling's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:45
Joe Burling
Women really know how to bring out the best/worst in all of us.

I'd blame this on women before I blamed it on video games.
JamesSorensen's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:47
JamesSorensen
wow, at first seemed like could have been a joke...


but turns out he is obsessed and fucked up....
arrest him and check him into some head clinic
mad cow's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:51
mad cow

It is both funny and wrong that this article is filed under 'Pew pew pew!'
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 12:54
Kryptinite
what the hell is an instant email message?
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:08
Snaileb
Sorry that drama has hit you guys so hard and so close to home, Linde, Niero, and Craig... I know what that's like...

This is an unacceptable portrayal of gamers in general...
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:15
DryvBy
Nice, more fuel for the Jack Thompson fire.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:16
tazarthayoot
Can the people who are in the proverbial spotlight of this industry please do us fans a favor and NOT SHOOT YOURSELVES IN THE GOD DAMN FOOT.

I need a drink, who's fucking buying?
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:17
Mxyzptlk
Never would have thought this guy would be capable something like this. Poor judgment indeed, not even two days later.
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:28
RICHARD BLOCKER
That's it, It's all over boys. I'm going to go sell my box to Gamestop before the government takes it away. I guess I'll go outside and see what excersize feels like.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:29
tazarthayoot
They'll have to pry the controller out of my cold dead hands.

They can take my Wii, though.
World Famous's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:32
World Famous
If this is true, then Andrew needs to be banned for life from the gaming industry. He just ruined whatever credibility all of us may have had.
ChrisFurniss's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:35
ChrisFurniss
That guy has a girlfriend? Where is he hiding her, in his second chin?
bobthecat23's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:44
bobthecat23
fuck this retard omfg man evryone is blaming the VT crap on
the videogames i hate the fucking media not gaming media the media like fox cnn unvision cbs abc
Your Mom's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:44
Your Mom
Wow...this in the city that locked itself down after the ATHF lights thing. What an idiot.
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:45
RICHARD BLOCKER
@ ChrisFurniss

Bazing!
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:46
tazarthayoot
Summa, any word on G4 letting you guys respond about this shit? Somebody has to, since no one else seems to want to.
Danzuke's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:47
Danzuke
Summa, you're totally right. It's a shame but the kid is out. It's hard enough to get people to look at gamers in a normal light. We certainly don't need this shit.

Not to mention the fact that he's clearly fucked in the head and a danger to the people around him
World Famous's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:49
World Famous
"Summa, any word on G4 letting you guys respond about this shit? Somebody has to, since no one else seems to want to."

No, nothing yet. It sucks too. We need to speak out.
Stuttering Craig's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:55
Stuttering Craig
I would LOVE to get the opportunity to speak about this on any platform I can... especially against someone just as openly crazy- Jack Thompson.
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 13:55
RICHARD BLOCKER
Yeah, turned on AOTS last night expecting something to be said about the subject. Go forth Summa, and champion our cause!!!
World Famous's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:07
World Famous
Just talked to G4. I guess since Kevin is out they aren't able to do anything. Sorry guys, we're gonna get our ass kicked for the next week or so.
908peruvian's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:15
908peruvian
i don't even see the point of stalking....
how do you get so low you start sending wacked out
insane love/hate messages, making calls while masturbating,
calling hanging up.

and to bring up the Virginia tech tragedy and threaten
to reenact it to sound "cool" or "tough" is more proof
of what a lowlife he is.
how old is he 10??

LOSER !!!!

he just kicked ALL MALE GAMERS in the nuts.

he shouldnt work in the videogame field again.



908peruvian's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:17
908peruvian
damn !!

just saw his myspace page!!

HE LOOKS FUCKEN CRAZY!
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:17
RICHARD BLOCKER
I think one of the SuperTroopers could pull it of, but I'd rather wait for the Portuguese opinion
Lightthrower's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:18
Lightthrower
Woah woah woah stop right there... In just a couple of days we had Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil jumping the gun on videogames as being the culprit for VT. Just today there was a bomb alert at G4 and now Andrew is accused of trying to kill people VT'like. Both G4 and Andrew are connected to videogames, it doesn't look like it is a coincidence, it's just too perfect. They have an agenda and they want the industry to suffer.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:34
AngelsDontBurn
Wow, I'm pretty shocked actually. One, because he actually had the nerve to type something like that and that he actually had a girlfriend.
Heavy_Kevy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:38
Heavy_Kevy
This is all too crazy. maybe yoga should be a mandatory class in elementary school.
bobafettm's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:42
bobafettm
I'm with Angels... i think the shocking part of this letter isnt the horrible things he wrote. Its that this guy even got a GF to begin with. But at least now he will be getting some loving from a convict named bubba.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:48
AngelsDontBurn
MSpaint @ work FTW.
Cruds's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:49
Cruds
«If this is true, then Andrew needs to be banned for life from the gaming industry.»

Since when is someone who talk/write about gaming – even if it is for a living – part of the gaming industry? Yeah he played games but anyone who have seen a episode of that show can tell those wires in his head are not properly connected.

Did they find any games at Cho Seung-Hui’s place? we all know he was into school plays, Jack Thompson should look into that a bit more deeply.
Phist's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:51
Phist
People are acting stupid crazy lately. I blame women, climate change, Jack Thompson, Dubya Bush and food products like Kellogg's Yogos.

World Famous's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:53
World Famous
"Since when is someone who talk/write about gaming – even if it is for a living – part of the gaming industry? Yeah he played games but anyone who have seen a episode of that show can tell those wires in his head are not properly connected."

The fact that MTV took it seriously enough to profile it is enough to count, in my book.
Geoff's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:56
Geoff
Everyone stop fucking harassing me on this subject.
Stop emailing me, stop calling me, go fuck yourself.

-Geoff Mendicino, Andrew's friend.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:56
Necros
At first glance, I thought this was talking about the blog Game|Life run by Chris Kohler at Wired and that the picture at the top was a very bad picture of Kohler. Guess I should differentiate the two names better.
World Famous's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/18/2007 14:56
World Famous
$2 says it was Geoff's idea.
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