RealNetworks has this week confirmed the acquisition of yet another creative company to further widen its considerable casual games portfolio. And, by doing so, Real has also offered that its games and related content are well on the way to videogame consoles including Xbox Live (PlayStation Network, and Nintendo’s upcoming WiiWare).

Already perceived as an industry leader in the casual games arena, RealNetworks has revealed that Game Trust will be taken beneath its wing to help bolster new social and community features in the games and the content it creates for syndication partners. Specifically, Real will integrate Game Trust’s Game Frame platform into its own technology, which powers in excess of 200 casual games channels worldwide.

Speaking to GameDaily.biz, Erik Goossens, the vice president of Game Content at RealNetworks and co-founder of casual games studio Zylom, offered that the company has received many user and partner requests to introduce social and community-based features, and duly hopes to roll out leaderboards, buddy lists, chat, and multiplayer functions into its casual gaming experience throughout the early part of 2008.

“We are very excited to join Real and push the casual games industry forward,” trumpeted Adeo Ressi, CEO of Game Trust. “This agreement unites the industry’s top content, top distribution, and top technology platform. The players will ultimately benefit.”

In relationship to the next-generation videogame console market and its widening online/casual capabilities via Xbox Live Arcade, PSN, and WiiWare, Goossens also took the opportunity to point out that RealNetworks’ progression onto those gaming platforms beyond the usual PC route, “is happening as we speak.”