89PHP Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here

Different companies answering to different regulators, a game studio and a casino are easy to mix up, and doing so is the most common mistake in this corner of the subject. The studios whose titles appear in Philippine-facing lobbies are covered here: who they are, what they are actually licensed to do, and whether they publish a return-to-player figure that anyone can check.

Everything in this section

5 pages, each of them about one entry and none of them summarising several. Wherever a field above reads “not published”, the entry’s own page explains who would have been the one to publish it.

Each entry in a paragraph

Each gets just enough text to show you which page deserves a click.

JILI explained

Neither a founding year nor a headquarters location is given anywhere. Its range of builds runs across slots, fishing games, table and card games, and bingo.

The record at the top of its page is PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). Among the games on the approved electronic games list of PAGCOR EGLD are titles from JILI.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates circulating elsewhere disagree with each other, and this site quotes no figure for its titles.

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Developer behind slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports titles.

Malta Gaming Authority appears as the first record listed on its page. Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited holds MGA/B2B/619/2018, the licence in question.

Any figure quoted for one of its titles is traceable to the studio, given that RTP is something it publishes. Each title’s game page on Pragmatic’s own site carries one published RTP, and that figure is the top of a set.

PG Soft explained

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

Malta Gaming Authority appears as the first record listed on its page. The licence numbered MGA/B2B/435/2017 is held in the name of Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195).

Any figure quoted for one of its titles is traceable to the studio, given that RTP is something it publishes. PG Soft publishes RTP in its game data, but a visitor’s page does not render it, with a blank dash in the visible field, while the server sends the figure inside the page’s data.

JDB Gaming explained

Neither a founding year nor a headquarters location is given anywhere. Builds fish shooting games, slots.

The record at the top of its page is PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). The PAGCOR site itself carries an approval list for game content.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates circulating elsewhere disagree with each other, and this site quotes no figure for its titles.

The Evolution entry

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

Malta Gaming Authority appears as the first record listed on its page. Holder of licence MGA/CRP/187/2010: Evolution Gaming Malta Limited.

Any figure quoted for one of its titles is traceable to the studio, given that RTP is something it publishes. Third-party sources agree on the RTP figures of Evolution’s game-show titles, which are recorded as ones that publish RTP..

Game providers details: look inside the game itself

There is nothing here you must take on trust. Public registers are the source of every licence claim on these pages, and they are open for anyone to check:

1. Looking up a Malta licence starts at the MGA authorisation portal, where you search by the company name instead of the brand name. Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence is held by Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited and not by anything called Pragmatic Play; a licensee is often a subsidiary with a different name.
2. Searching the Gambling Commission public register by account number is the route for a UK licence. Any regulatory settlement against the holder appears on the same record as an active licence’s activities and the date each began.
3. The studio’s approved-games PDF on pagcor.ph is what to find for a PAGCOR EGLD listing. Pay attention to what is approved: game content for licensed operators. No licence is held by the studio unless the document itself says it holds one.
4. The studio’s own page for that specific title is where to look when you want an RTP figure. A comparison site cannot supply a figure that is not there, and when two comparison sites disagree, the disagreement itself is the finding.

The thing most often got wrong here

Keeping a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing apart is the distinction that counts most here. PAGCOR’s approval of a studio’s game content for the operators it licenses is what an EGLD listing stands for. Nothing about it is a licence held by the studio, and nothing is said by it about any casino that carries those games.

Four out of the seven studios below hold that and nothing more. Each of their pages spells this out in plain words, since “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” are separated by one word but by a whole world, and the second is the outcome readers usually hope for.

Finding game providers at 89PHP

1. Sign in at 89PHP and open the game lobby.
2. A title can be found by name, and the lobby can be filtered down by studio.
3. Its stake range and paytable are readable on the game’s info screen, which you open before you play.
4. First fix a session budget; then begin with a low stake whenever a studio is new to you.