June 23, 2008 - Pictogame® Line Driver™: social gaming meets auto racing
Pictogame still pushes the user-generated games envelope by launching "Line Driver™", a free collaborative racing game in which users can create their own tracks.
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June 21, 2007 - Hot Pixel Launch
zSlide is proud to announce the launch of Hot Pixel, its first video game for Sony PSP™.
April 27, 2006 - HOT PXL / HOT PIXEL
zSlide & Atari announcement - HOT PXL Delivers Street Smart Micro-Game Anarchy to the Hands of PlayStation® Portable Gamers.
April 7, 2003 - Futuroscope
Futuroscope resort, in France, entrusts zSlide™ to create the largest console LAN in the world.
2008 - Pictogame® Line Driver™: social gaming meets auto racing
Paris, June 23, 2008: zSlide® innovates in free social gaming with Line Driver™, its latest Pictogame® installment
Pictogame is a social gaming web-site launched by French company zSlide in 2007. Its content is created by the gamers themselves and by independent game creators.
Pictogames are free flash games which can be entirely customized and enjoyed by anybody. These games can be published on blogs and social network profiles and can be played on any Web Browser.
One year after it was launched, over 400,000 free games have been created thanks to the customization tools available on the web-site and 4 million games are displayed each month on 20,000 blogs worldwide. Pictogame is also known for the Facebook application “I Kick You”, a social Game In Facebook which enabled 500,000 entertained users to blow some steam by kicking their facebook friends' rear.
Pictogame still pushes the user-generated games envelope by launching “Line Driver™”, a free collaborative racing game in which users can create their own tracks with just a few mouse clicks. This social gaming experience offers people an easy way to challenge their friends with their best lap times on their own tracks.
Take a tour at the Line Driver blog to try a selection of cool circuits.
According to the managing director of zSlide, Bruno Carsenti: “Creating your track with Line Driver™ is as easy as drawing a line on a piece of paper. So why not try and draw a perfect replica of the Monaco GP track if you feel like it? That’s the catchy aspect of Line Driver™, it is really easy to use and once the track is drawn, you want to share it with your friends at once.”
In just a few weeks, the free racing game Line Driver™ has already recorded 12,000 different tracks created by Web users.
Thanks to its success in social gaming, Pictogame keeps attracting more and more independent game developers while generating a community of confirmed players.
About zSlide®
Specialized in Web applications development, file sharing, social networks and zSlide® offers its services in social gaming to partner web-sites and advertisers. zSlide® is a French company located in Paris. It was founded in 2000 by two Engineers, Louis Choquel and Bruno Carsenti. They lead a team of thirty highly qualified employees.
Line Driver™ official blog: linedriverofficialblog.blogspot.com
Pictogame web-site: www.pictogame.com
Corporate web-site: www.zslide.com
Press contact:
Christine Chalier
zSlide S.A.S.
Tel : 01 42 87 72 94
press@zslide.com
2008 - Bruno Bonnell named president of the supervisory board of zSlide
zSlide reinforces its governance to build its development by naming Bruno Bonnell president of its supervisory board.
His contribution will be very appreciated on internal productions, online gaming and video on demand publishing, on which zSlide builds its future growth.
2007 - I Kick You on Facebook
iKickYou is a Facebook app based on the most kick-ass template from Pictogame. It enables you to kick your Facebook friends and compete with them!
2007 - Hot Pixel is released for PSP®
Hot Pixel is released for PSP™ in Europe and in the US. Tons of pixel-flavoured mini-games coming to a PSP™ near you!
2007 - Pictogame
Pictogame Beta is launched. It enables anyone to create customized Flash games in 3 clicks and share them by e-mail, blogs and social networks. Say it with games!
2005 and earlier
zSlide was an official Tools & Middleware licensee of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., to develop a PlayStation2 middleware named zSlideEngine™.
zSlideEngine™ was an innovative solution for Online Services on PlayStation2, used to power online media applications including:
- Video chat between next gen consoles.
- Browsing online editorial & download content such as video games news and reviews.
- Download and streaming music and video contents.
- Online store front end.
zSlide won the two main prizes at the Capital-IT event Spring 2002: "Best One" & "Special Seed Trophy" granted by the French Ministry of Research.
zSlide™ also created the largest console LAN in the world at Futoroscope Resort.
For the inauguration ceremony, French Prime Minister JP Raffarin was introduced to video-games on XBox by Louis Choquel, CEO of zSlide.
"PSP", "PS2", "PS3" are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., "XBOX" and "XBOX 360" are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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Presentation of Line Driver™ (in French)
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