WJ2 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here

In this corner of the subject, the most common mistake is confusing a game studio with a casino, which are different companies with different regulators. Covered across these pages are the studios whose titles turn up in Philippine-facing lobbies, with who they are, what they are actually licensed to do, and whether they publish a return-to-player figure anyone can check. There are 5 pages below.

Everything in this section

5 pages, each covering one entry instead of summarising several. Check the entry’s own page whenever a field above reads “not published”, since it explains who would have had to publish it.

Each entry in a paragraph

Each gets just enough detail for you to see which page is worth your click.

JDB Gaming explained

Its published material contains no founding year and no headquarters. Builds fish shooting games, slots.

First among the records on its page comes PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). There is a game-content approval list, and it sits on PAGCOR’s own site.

It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the figures in circulation are third-party estimates that disagree with each other, whereas this site quotes none for its titles.

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. It is a builder of slots, live casino, bingo, crash games, virtual sports.

Among the records on its page, Malta Gaming Authority is listed first. Under licence MGA/B2B/619/2018 sits Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited as holder.

Because it publishes RTP, you can trace a figure quoted for one of its titles to the studio. Pragmatic’s own game pages carry one RTP per title, and the figure shown is the top of a set.

JILI explained

Its published material contains no founding year and no headquarters. Slots, fishing games, table and card games, bingo are what the studio builds.

First among the records on its page comes PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). PAGCOR EGLD has approved JILI titles as electronic games, and they are on its published list.

It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the figures in circulation are third-party estimates that disagree with each other, whereas this site quotes none for its titles.

PG Soft explained

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

Among the records on its page, Malta Gaming Authority is listed first. Licence MGA/B2B/435/2017 is held by the company Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195).

Because it publishes RTP, you can trace a figure quoted for one of its titles to the studio. On the page a visitor sees, the RTP field shows only a blank dash, yet PG Soft does publish RTP in its game data, and the number is there in what the server delivers alongside the page.

The Evolution entry

Founded 2006, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Builds live dealer casino, live game shows.

Among the records on its page, Malta Gaming Authority is listed first. In the name of Evolution Gaming Malta Limited stands Licence MGA/CRP/187/2010.

Because it publishes RTP, you can trace a figure quoted for one of its titles to the studio. Evolution’s game-show titles are recorded as publishing RTP, with RTP figures that third-party sources report consistently..

Game providers details can be checked in the game itself

Trust is not something this page asks of you anywhere. Anyone can open the public registers that every licence claim on these pages came from:

1. Open the MGA authorisation portal for a Malta licence, and search the company name, not the brand name. Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited, not anything called Pragmatic Play, holds Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence, since the licensee is often a differently named subsidiary.
2. Search by account number in the Gambling Commission public register when you are checking a UK licence. On the same record as an active licence’s activities and their start dates, you will also see any regulatory settlement against the holder.
3. On pagcor.ph, look for the studio’s approved-games PDF to find a PAGCOR EGLD listing. What it is approving is game content for licensed operators, so read that. No licence is held by the studio if the document does not say so.
4. When you need an RTP figure, go to the studio’s own page for the specific title in question. Two comparison sites that disagree make that disagreement the finding, and a figure absent from there cannot be supplied by any comparison site.

The thing most often got wrong here

Most important in this context is separating a PAGCOR operator licence from a PAGCOR EGLD listing. PAGCOR approving a studio’s game content for use by operators it licenses is what an EGLD listing means. The studio does not hold a licence through it, and no casino carrying those games is covered by what it says.

What four of the seven studios below hold stops at that. A reader usually hopes to have found the second, and “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” are one word apart and worlds apart, so each of their pages says so in plain words.

Finding game providers at WJ2

1. Sign in at WJ2 and open the game lobby.
2. Lobby filter by studio, or a search by title name: either works.
3. Stake range and paytable can be read on a game’s info screen, so open it prior to playing.
4. First set a session budget, then use a low stake when you start new studios.