March 26th, 2013Top Story 11 Splendid Sand Sculptures Made For the Movie Geek By Attila Nagy These sand sculptures were prepared as part of this year's Hollywood-themed Weston-Super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival on March 26, 2013 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. All week, 20 award-winning sand sculptors from across the globe are working to create sand sculptures that include odes to Harry Potter, Marilyn Monroe and characters from the Star Wars films as part of the town's very own movie themed festival on the beach. Sure, it's too cold to go the beach. But that doesn't mean you can't admire it from afar. Sand sculptor Radavan Zivny works on a sand sculpture of Gollum from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. A scene from Jurassic Park. Helena Bangert (center), from Holland works on a sand sculpture of King Kong. A sand sculptor works on a Toy Story-themed sand sculpture. Detail of the Toy Story. E.T. phones home. Scene from a Harry Potter movie. Detail of a Harry Potter sand sculpture. Batman and The Incredible Hulk, because why not? A Clint Eastwood sculpture of when Clint Eastwood made good movies. Pirates of the Caribbean. Detail of the Pirates of the Caribbean sculpture. Alfred Hitchcock and a murderous bird. Yoda, this is. Photos by Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

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		Home Tech Finance Markets Politics Strategy Entertainment Advertising Retail Sports Life Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Game Makers Are Picking Mobile Devices Over Consoles This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Game developers are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets for their next project. A survey of 2,500 developers from the organizers of the recent Game Developers Conference found that 58 percent were planning their next project for mobile devices. Approximately 38 percent of those surveyed said their last project was on mobile. Over 50 percent of those surveyed said they were independent developers, indicating that their could be some bias towards mobile in the survey, since mobile games are cheaper to develop than budget-busting console games.  Mobile gaming isn't going to knock out more immersive and graphics-driven desktop and console gaming any time soon. Hand-held consoles, however, are directly threatened by the increasingly sophisticated crop of iOS and Android games and will see less and less developer interest. Mobile games have been the primary beneficiary of the app store era. No wonder, given they are the largest time bucket on both smartphones and tablets. A BII analysis found that 70 percent of the top 200 grossing apps on the iOS App Store were games (the proportion was 75 percent on Google Play). Among developers working on mobile, 90 percent planned working on iOS, 75 percent on Android, and only 15 percent on Windows Phone. Read » Also On SAI Today: REVIEW: The Roku 3 Blows Away The Apple TV Photos Of The Best Features In The New Roku 3 Streaming Box Advertisement CHART OF THE DAY: Yahoo Shares Are Quietly Soaring Under Marissa Mayer CHART OF THE DAY: Kids Send A Mind Boggling Number Of Texts Every Month CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Dominates In Consumer Cloud Services Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the SAI RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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