Jeffrey Grubb, Author at VentureBeat

Jeffrey Grubb is a reporter for GamesBeat. He has not written any fantasy novels. You're thinking of Jeff Grubb. Instead, Jeffrey Grubb spends his time investigating the big stories in gaming, crying over Detroit sports, and exploring his latest hometown of Denver, CO. Fun facts: He was born and grew up in Michigan. He moved to Ohio. And he does not enjoy writing about himself. I adhere to VentureBeat’s ethics policy.

Stories by Jeff Grubb

Reflected illumination in Control from developer Remedy.

Remedy’s Control is one of the latest games to get Nvidia’s RTX

Jeff Grubb March 18, 2019 4:10 PM

Why is a medium popcorn $15 but a large popcorn is only $15.50?

Ray tracing on GTX cards is the medium popcorn of computer graphics

Jeff Grubb March 18, 2019 3:01 PM

Bad Dues II is coming soon from Jeff Grubb's Basement Studios.

NESmaker is like Unity for making NES games

Jeff Grubb March 18, 2019 1:16 PM

Octane, a new character in Apex Legends.

Apex Legends’ Season 1 Battle Pass launches March 19

Jeff Grubb March 18, 2019 10:30 AM

They don't call him Mythic Mike for a reason.

GamesBeat Decides 113: Mythic Mike loves to raid

Jeff Grubb March 15, 2019 5:11 PM

A Steam review.

Valve plans to mitigate ‘off-topic review bombs’ on Steam

Jeff Grubb March 15, 2019 2:06 PM

Roccat makes high-quality gaming keyboards and mice.

Turtle Beach acquires PC peripheral company Roccat

Jeff Grubb March 15, 2019 11:56 AM

Dota Auto Chess in action.

Dota Auto Chess heads to mobile without Dota

Jeff Grubb March 14, 2019 2:23 PM

The Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS 4.

Review

Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS 4 comes to PlayStation 4 for Ace Combat 7

Jeff Grubb March 14, 2019 1:16 PM

Discord's S

Discord empowers devs to turn community servers into stores

Jeff Grubb March 14, 2019 12:01 PM

Straight shooters only.

Battlefield V’s battle royale mode gets big reveal

Jeff Grubb March 13, 2019 12:54 PM

A patent for a Google video game controller.

Analysis

Google needs to actually make games if it wants to matter

Jeff Grubb March 13, 2019 9:46 AM

Minecraft gets a chance to bring in even more players.

Minecraft still has 91 million monthly players as it hits Game Pass

Jeff Grubb March 12, 2019 4:14 PM

Halo Master Chief Collection Skull

Halo: Master Chief Collection comes to PC with Halo: Reach

Jeff Grubb March 12, 2019 2:58 PM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card.

Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Ti cracks AMD’s stranglehold on value

Jeff Grubb March 12, 2019 8:16 AM

Fortnite continues to drive spending on Xbox One.

Analysis

Xbox One S All-Digital Edition is the right console for the right time

Jeff Grubb March 11, 2019 1:56 PM

A working PS4 is harder to find than a foil Charmander.

Opinion

GB Decides 112: Anthem has destroyed 99.9% of all PS4s

Jeff Grubb March 8, 2019 5:16 PM

Apex Legends.

Nvidia: RTX GPUs can improve your kill-death ratio in Apex Legends

Jeff Grubb March 7, 2019 12:13 PM

Top: EA Bottom: Casey Hudson

EA kills its E3 briefing in favor of EA Play livestreams

Jeff Grubb March 7, 2019 10:54 AM

GamesBeat Decides, the internet's No. 1 DmC: Devil May Cry fancast.

GamesBeat Decides: Mike reviews Devil May Cry 5

Jeff Grubb March 6, 2019 7:17 PM

Labo is back-o.

Nintendo announces VR kit for the Switch

Jeff Grubb March 6, 2019 5:19 PM

Gridlock from Burnt Horizon.

Rainbow Six: Siege’s Year 4 content kicks off today with Burnt Horizon

Jeff Grubb March 6, 2019 4:31 PM

The Super X-Fi Amp for headphones from Creative.

Review

Creative Super X-Fi Amp review — Holographic audio

Jeff Grubb March 5, 2019 3:51 PM

1. Minecraft Texture Update Beta

Minecraft Marketplace January 2019’s 10 most downloaded creations

Jeff Grubb March 5, 2019 1:21 PM

Getting started with Perfect Team is free for OOTP Baseball 19 owners.

Perfect Team is an ace for Out of the Park Baseball

Jeff Grubb March 5, 2019 12:06 PM

Sonic has two eyes, and I must scream

Jeff Grubb March 4, 2019 4:43 PM

The Steam peak concurrent player chart from May and June 2015.

Analysis

This chart visualizes why live-service games are the ‘it’ thing for publishers

Jeff Grubb March 4, 2019 2:56 PM

The RTX 2060 from Nvidia/

Nvidia and AMD are shipping fewer GPUs as retailers sit on inventory

Jeff Grubb March 1, 2019 4:20 PM

Mike is a witch!

GamesBeat Decides 111: Seeing into the future

Jeff Grubb March 1, 2019 4:07 PM

It's good to Ape Out.

Ape Out is the video game palate cleanser you’re looking for

Jeff Grubb February 28, 2019 5:37 PM

Anthem developer BioWare wants fans to know it’s listening

Jeff Grubb February 28, 2019 2:41 PM

Art from Bury Me, My Love.

Bury Me, My Love publisher gets $2.28 million investment and a new name

Jeff Grubb February 28, 2019 12:08 PM

Some Jedi survived Order 66, and now one of them is getting their own game.

What Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is and how it could change EA

Jeff Grubb February 28, 2019 6:00 AM

Overkill's The Walking Dead

Skybound scraps Overkill’s The Walking Dead

Jeff Grubb February 26, 2019 5:32 PM

Analysis

THQ Nordic had to clarify that it does not condone child porn or 8Chan

Jeff Grubb February 26, 2019 1:06 PM

NVENC is making high-quality livestreams look better without requiring a second PC.

OBS 23 is live: How to get better livestreams with Nvidia’s encoder

Jeff Grubb February 26, 2019 10:52 AM

You could download every eShop release for almost two whole weeks.

You can get a 1TB microSD card for your Nintendo Switch for $450

Jeff Grubb February 25, 2019 4:42 PM

Analysis

Trials Rising isn’t a perfect Switch port, but it’s very playable

Jeff Grubb February 25, 2019 2:51 PM

Trials Rising is excellent.

Review

Trials Rising review — Timeless mechanics and incredible tracks

Jeff Grubb February 24, 2019 8:00 AM

Analysis

Xbox Game Pass on Switch sounds great, but don’t forget about Nvidia

Jeff Grubb February 22, 2019 1:22 PM

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