If you think widgets are plainly offered to make life easier for you and provide updates on the site that it is linking to, think again. Widgets are now also becoming a gateway for most game software developers such as Zumobi. While they are normally believed to provide updates, here is another dimension of widgets that has not been given much attention. In short, there are more to widgets that placing them on your desktop or better yet, mobile phone.

The target here is obviously the mobile computing industry. A lot of people are putting to good use their gadgets such as the most celebrated iPhone to which allows them to connect to the web directly. Mobile gadgets are normally not seen as containing these gaming software. But for the people who want to put something else in their computers, this is perhaps something that can allow them to download and install games as they wish to do so.

“Almost every user has at least two games,” he said. “Even the knowledge workers, who you might think will just have stock news and other financial stuff, like to have video game news, or games.”

Check out WidSets, Nokia’s widget platform, and its library of widgets that includes 27 pages in the Fun and Games category. Yahoo’s Go for Mobile application has lots of games widgets, too, while Zumobi’s Games & Humor category is also worth a look.

The point is, all these new mobile widget platforms are getting increasing distribution.

(Source) Pocket Gamers Biz

If you think about it, the idea is brilliant. Although this was never seen to be a great benefit and alternative, it is slowly being realized as the people in the tech world are exploring further benefits that they can get from widgets other than news and updates on their mobile devices.

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