PH888 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here

This section covers 5 game providers entries. Because a game studio and a casino are separate companies with separate regulators, mixing the two up is the error seen most often on this subject. Studios that supply titles to Philippine-facing lobbies are profiled in these pages, which establish who they are, what their licences actually permit, and whether they release a return-to-player figure that stands up to checking.

Everything in this section

Count 5 pages, each written around a single entry and not around a summary of several. The reason behind a “not published” field above, including who would have had to publish it, is set out on the entry’s own page.

Each entry in a paragraph

Enough is said on each to point you toward the page that repays opening.

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Five product lines make up what it builds: slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports.

Malta Gaming Authority is where its page’s records begin. Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited appears as the licensee for MGA/B2B/619/2018.

Since it publishes RTP, you can follow any figure quoted for one of its titles back to the studio. Only the top figure of a set makes it onto Pragmatic’s game pages, which print one RTP per title.

PG Soft explained

Founded 2015, based in Valletta, Malta. Builds slots.

Malta Gaming Authority is where its page’s records begin. Whoever wants to know who is licensed under MGA/B2B/435/2017 will find Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195).

Since it publishes RTP, you can follow any figure quoted for one of its titles back to the studio. Visitors see a dash where PG Soft’s RTP should be; the studio still publishes the figure, and it is included in the data the server returns with the page.

JILI explained

The founding year is absent, and the headquarters is absent too. Bingo and fishing games feature in its portfolio together with slots and table and card games.

The initial record there is PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). Open PAGCOR EGLD’s approved electronic games page and JILI is one of the names there.

It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the circulating figures are third-party estimates that clash, and none is quoted by this site for its titles.

JDB Gaming explained

The founding year is absent, and the headquarters is absent too. Builds fish shooting games, slots.

The initial record there is PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). PAGCOR’s own website carries a page listing game content approvals.

It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the circulating figures are third-party estimates that clash, and none is quoted by this site for its titles.

CQ9 Gaming in full

The founding year is absent, and the headquarters is absent too. The studio’s builds span slots, fishing games, table games and arcade games.

The initial record there is PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). A list approving game content is posted by PAGCOR on its own website.

It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the circulating figures are third-party estimates that clash, and none is quoted by this site for its titles.

Go into the game to read its game providers details

Believing it blindly is not part of the deal; you can look at the sources. Public registers supplied every licence claim on these pages, and they are open to read:

1. To look up a Malta licence, search the MGA authorisation portal for the operating company, not for the brand it trades under. Expect the licensee to be a subsidiary with another name more often than not, as Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited holding Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence shows.
2. Take the account number to the Gambling Commission public register to look up a UK licence. The same record that displays an active licence’s activities and their start dates also shows regulatory settlements against the holder.
3. Turn to pagcor.ph for the studio’s approved-games PDF when checking a PAGCOR EGLD listing. Everything it approves is game content for licensed operators, which is how the entry should be read. If the document carries no licence for the studio, then the studio holds none.
4. Pull the RTP figure from the studio’s own page covering that specific title. In the absence of the figure, comparison sites cannot fill the gap, and any disagreement between two comparison sites is the finding.

The thing most often got wrong here

If you take one thing from this, make it the contrast between a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing. What an EGLD listing indicates is PAGCOR approval of the studio’s game content for operators licensed by PAGCOR. Its meaning is not that the studio holds a licence, and it offers no information about casinos carrying those games.

Four of the seven studios further down have only that much. Plain words appear on every page of theirs, since “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” differ only by a word while meaning very different things, the second being what readers are normally hoping for.

Finding game providers at PH888

1. Sign in at PH888 and open the game lobby.
2. Limit the lobby to one studio with the filter, or enter the title’s name in the search box.
3. Stake range and paytable both sit on a game’s info screen; open it before you play.
4. Choose your session budget before the first spin, and bet low on studios you are trying for the first time.