PH365 Game Providers: Studios, Licences & RTP

This section covers 5 game providers entries. A studio makes games while a casino runs them, each under its own regulators, and treating them as one is the commonest error in this part of the subject. Here you will find the studios behind games in Philippine-facing lobbies: their background, what their licences genuinely allow, and whether a return-to-player number they publish can be verified by anyone.

Everything in this section

There are 5 pages here, every one devoted to one entry and none to a roundup of several. Each entry’s page spells out who was expected to publish any field above that reads “not published”.

Each entry in a paragraph

The aim is only to tell you which of these pages to open.

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Titles it builds include slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports.

At the top of its page sits Malta Gaming Authority as the first record. MGA/B2B/619/2018, a licence granted to the firm Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited For the casino vertical, the B2B Critical Supply Licence appears as Licensed on the MGA’s own verification portal, which is a better source than Pragmatic’s site..

Tracing is easy for any figure quoted for one of its titles: it publishes RTP, so the studio is the source. Where Pragmatic states an RTP, it states just one per title, drawn from the top of a group of values.

JILI explained

Nobody reading its own materials will find a founding year or a headquarters. Players will find fishing games, bingo, table and card games and slots from it.

Its page begins with a record for PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). Check the PAGCOR EGLD approval register and JILI shows up with its electronic games.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates elsewhere disagree with one another, and this site does not quote any for its titles.

PG Soft explained

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

At the top of its page sits Malta Gaming Authority as the first record. Licensing sits under MGA/B2B/435/2017, issued to Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195).

Tracing is easy for any figure quoted for one of its titles: it publishes RTP, so the studio is the source. A visitor looking for PG Soft’s RTP sees a blank dash, although the studio does publish it and the number is present in the server’s page data.

JDB Gaming explained

Nobody reading its own materials will find a founding year or a headquarters. Builds fish shooting games, slots.

Its page begins with a record for PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). A document on PAGCOR’s own site lists the game content approvals.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates elsewhere disagree with one another, and this site does not quote any for its titles.

CQ9 Gaming in full

Nobody reading its own materials will find a founding year or a headquarters. What gets built is slots, fishing games, table games and arcade games.

Its page begins with a record for PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). A page on PAGCOR’s own website lists its game content approvals.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates elsewhere disagree with one another, and this site does not quote any for its titles.

Open the game and read the game providers details there

No claim here asks you to take it as given. The licence claims throughout these pages trace to public registers that anyone can look up:

1. Malta licences are best checked in the MGA authorisation portal, using the company name in the search rather than the brand. Look for a subsidiary with a different name when tracing a licensee; Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited, not anything called Pragmatic Play, holds Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence.
2. Search the Gambling Commission public register using the account number if you want to check a UK licence. The record of an active licence states what it covers and when each activity began, with any regulatory settlement against the holder listed alongside.
3. The studio’s approved-games PDF on pagcor.ph is where you look for a PAGCOR EGLD listing. What gets approved is game content for licensed operators, and that is the thing to read. Should the document stay silent on a studio licence, there is none to report.
4. To get an RTP figure, open the page the studio runs for that specific title. Should the figure be missing, comparison sites have nothing reliable to add; where two of them conflict, the conflict is what you take away.

The thing most often got wrong here

Above all, keep a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing separate in your mind. Being listed on the EGLD tells you PAGCOR has cleared a studio’s game content for use by its licensed operators. A licence held by the studio it is not, and it makes no statement about casinos that carry those games.

Four out of the seven studios listed below have nothing beyond that. Every page of theirs states which applies, because one word is all that divides “PAGCOR listed” from “PAGCOR licensed”, and the licensed version is typically what people were hoping for.

Finding game providers at PH365

1. Log in at PH365, then open the game lobby.
2. Either pick a studio to filter the lobby or search for the title by name.
3. On its info screen, a game shows the stake range and paytable; read them before playing.
4. Before you play, limit what the session will cost, and use a low stake the first time on a new studio.