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Disney’s Jungle Cruise sailed its way to a domestic box office win with $34.2 million earned in its opening weekend. The film earned another $30 million through Disney+ Premier Access and $27.6 million in the international box office for a global total of $90 million.

Disney shared the news in a press release, also saying that it remains focused on “offering consumer choice during these unprecedented times.”

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“Jungle Cruise is the perfect summer adventure film, bringing a beloved theme park attraction to both the big screen and living rooms in a way that only Disney can,” A Disney spokesperson said. “We remain focused on offering consumer choice during these unprecedented times, and it is clear that fans and families value the ability to make decisions on how they prefer to enjoy Disney’s best-in-class storytelling.”

In our Jungle Cruise review, we said that it is “a rollicking adventure full of humor and heart anchored by Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt’s winning heroes.”

While Jungle Cruise didn’t quite surpass Black Widow opening weekend that saw the MCU film earning $80 million at the domestic box office and $60 million on Disney+ Premier Access, it did surpass Cruella’s opening of $21.5 million domestically.

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Variety notes that Jungle Cruise cost $200 million to produce, meaning that it would be considered a major disappointment if times were different, as a film “with that price tag would typically have to generate at least $500 million globally to break even.”

Jungle Cruise, much like Black Widow and Cruella, released day-and-date in theaters and on Disney+. This has led to a major issue between Disney and Scarlett Johansson, as the Black Widow star has sued the company over a contract breach after the film released day-and-date on Disney+ after she was reportedly assured it would release exclusively in theaters.

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Epic has confirmed Ariana Grande will headline the Fortnite Rift Tour following weeks of leaks and rumors culminating with her in-game skin appearing online today via a French Fortnite social channel. The Rift Tour kicks off this Friday, August 6, with the first of five showings beginning at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET. Players around the world will have multiple chances to join the interactive concert–and should expect a few in-game rewards and other surprises along the way.

We first heard of a possible Ariana Grande in-game concert when Epic and Apple took their financial battle to court. Some of the same documents revealed during the trial also tipped off the massive Fortnite community to future events such as the NBA crossover and LeBron James skin. Then a leak on Reddit a few weeks ago suggested the concert was happening this summer. Now it’s official: Ariana Grande will perform in-game alongside the debut of her very own Icon Series cosmetic set.

Epic seems to have planned to reveal the full details on August 2 according to the developer’s wording last week, but was apparently moved to reveal the show’s main act a day early after undisputed leaks popped up online. Nevertheless, there should still be more for fans to learn in the days ahead, as Epic has promised a second wave of Rift Tour Quests, and has even hinted that some free cosmetics will be earned not just before the show, but during and after it as well.

Meanwhile, players who subscribe to Fortnite Crew will earn bonus in-game cosmetics simply for logging into the game between August 5-9. The list of extras includes the Rainbow Cloudcruiser Umbrella, the Skye up High Loading Screen, and a Rift Tour-themed Banner.

Rift Tour Schedule

The Rift Tour will debut this Friday evening in US time zones, but five showings between August 6-8 will give players ample opportunity to join the fun. Here’s when you can jump into Fortnite and catch the Rift Tour.

• Show 1 – Friday, August 6 at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET
• Show 2 – Saturday, August 7 at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
• Show 3 – Sunday, August 8 at 9 PM PT / 12 AM ET
• Show 4 – Sunday, August 8 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET
• Show 5 – Sunday, August 8 at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET

The performance has been pre-recorded and thus will repeat, so you don’t need to catch it multiple times–unless you want to, of course. A separate leak also suggests that Grande won’t be the only musician on the virtual stage, with a portion of the concert leaking in a new video that shows players racing down what looks like a rushing river of multicolored Slurp Juice while a Marshmello song plays. Marshmello was the headliner of Fortnite’s first live concert in 2019.

We’ll be sure to bring you complete coverage of the Rift Tour performance, though if the Travis Scott show is anything to go by, you’ll want to be there yourself too. Set your alarm for the Rift Tour starting Friday, August 6. In the meantime, clean up the map’s Week 8 Alien Artifacts and Week 8 challenges.

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While The Ascent features NVIDIA’s DLSS and ray tracing on Steam, it does not currently fully support either on Xbox Game Pass for PC. Fortunately, developer Neon Giant has confirmed it is working to bring these features to the Game Pass version.

As reported by Eurogamer, Neon Giant has been responding to PC players of The Ascent on Twitter who have noticed these differences between the two versions, sharing that build processes are different for the two versions. On Xbox Game Pass, DLSS is simply not present. Ray tracing is available as an option, but turning it on appears to make no difference to the game.

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“We are working with our partners on adressing [sic] this as soon as we can! Build processes are different for the two versions, not just a storefront swap,” Neon Giant wrote in response to @ezekiele2517.

To @SR_Chep, Neon Giant said that “it is being looked at, with the intent of fixing it/bringing it to parity with steam across the board.”

@MrChrisBee also noted that the Game Pass version takes “over twice as long to load a level as the Steam version.” Neon Giant thanked the user for bringing it to its attention, while also confirming the work to bring both versions to parity.

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Unfortunately for those playing The Ascent on Xbox Series X/S, the game does not support ray tracing or DLSS, as those are PC-only features for the cyberpunk-themed RPG-shooter.

These storefronts having different versions is nothing new, as NieR: Automata’s Steam version was noticeably worse than the Xbox Game Pass for PC version. Luckily, the Steam version has been patched to bring the versions closer together.

In our review of The Ascent, we said, “story isn’t its strong suit, but the rest of The Ascent delivers a wonderfully realized cyberpunk world mixed with satisfying twin-stick gunplay to create an enjoyable action-RPG.”

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Edgar Ramirez, who is set to play Atlas in the upcoming Borderlands movie, has shared why fans of the games should be excited for this upcoming adaptation.

Ramirez, who is also playing Aguirre in Jungle Cruise, was speaking to CinemaBlend and discussed how he is not much of a gamer and wasn’t too familiar with Borderlands before landing the role. However, he quickly fell in love with the film’s tone and combination of humor and darkness.

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“In the end, games, movies, it’s all about storytelling,” Ramirez said. “And the most iconic games, such as Borderlands, is the storytelling and the tone of the games what have made them so special. So now I know the game. I didn’t know it before. And the tone is spectacular.

“I mean it’s so dark and so witty and so whimsical as well. It’s so in on the joke and kind of like impudent. There’s a ‘I don’t give a damn’ attitude to the game, and that’s what we rescued and put into the movie so I’m very excited for the fans of the game to see it and see how respectful we were to the tone of the game.”

In the games, Atlas is the name of one of the major corporations and gun manufacturers, and Ramirez appears to be playing the company’s founder and is described as a “business titan and arms manufacturer.” He is also described as “the most powerful person in the universe.” Atlas has not been featured in the games as of yet.

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Joining Ramirez is Cate Blancett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Kreig, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, and Jack Black as Claptrap.

Production has officially ended for the Borderlands movie, and the team behind the film revealed the first look at Claptrap as part of the celebration. The film is being directed by Eli Roth and scripted by Craig Mazin and will be released in theaters in 2022.

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This Saturday has brought with it a ton of PC centric deals. The first of which is over at Newegg where you can grab yourself some Final Fantasy XIV game time on the cheap. This MMO is all the rage at the moment, so what better time to cash in some game time then during a sale. Not your thing? That’s fine too, as we’ve got deals on powerful gaming PC, monitors from Samsung and Gigabyte and so much more.

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