PHMAPALAD Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here
Inside this section sit 5 pages covering game providers.
- PHMAPALAD Evolution Games
- Evolution is a studio that makes games, and it does not operate a casino.
- PHMAPALAD JDB Gaming Games
- JDB Gaming designs games and is not an operator.
- PHMAPALAD JILI Games
- In the industry JILI works as a game studio, not as an operator.
- PHMAPALAD PG Soft Games
- PG Soft designs games and is not an operator.
- PHMAPALAD Pragmatic Play Games
- Pragmatic Play sits on the studio side, not the operator side.
Different companies, different regulators: a game studio is not a casino, and confusing the two is the mistake made most often in this part of the subject. These pages look at studios seen in Philippine-facing lobbies, asking who stands behind them, what their licences really allow, and whether any return-to-player figure they publish can be checked by anybody.
Everything in this section
| Studio | Publishes RTP | Specialisms | Licence position |
|---|---|---|---|
| JILI | No | slots, fishing games | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
| Pragmatic Play | Yes | slots, live casino | Malta Gaming Authority |
| PG Soft | Yes | slots | Malta Gaming Authority |
| Evolution | Yes | live dealer casino, live game shows | Malta Gaming Authority |
| JDB Gaming | No | fish shooting games, slots | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
The 5 pages each take one entry on its own, and none attempts a summary of several. For a field above that reads “not published”, the entry’s own page says who would have needed to publish it.
Each entry in a paragraph
You get a short summary of each, sufficient to pick the right page to open.
JILI explained
Offers no founding year and no headquarters. Output includes slots, fishing games, table and card games, plus bingo.
Its page opens with a record from PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). Look at the approved electronic games register of PAGCOR EGLD and JILI titles are there.
It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the figures in circulation are third-party estimates that conflict with each other, and this site quotes none for its titles.
Pragmatic Play in full
Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Develops live casino, slots, virtual sports, bingo and crash games.
At the top of the records on its page sits Malta Gaming Authority. Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited: the company that was granted Licence MGA/B2B/619/2018.
A figure quoted for one of its titles is traceable to the studio itself, as RTP is something it publishes. One RTP is carried by each title on Pragmatic’s game pages, the top figure from a set.
PG Soft explained
Founded 2015, based in Valletta, Malta. Builds slots.
At the top of the records on its page sits Malta Gaming Authority. Licence MGA/B2B/435/2017 is recorded against Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195) as holder.
A figure quoted for one of its titles is traceable to the studio itself, as RTP is something it publishes. The page a visitor sees from PG Soft shows a blank dash in the RTP field, although the figure itself is sitting in the data the server sends along with that page.
The Evolution entry
Founded 2006, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Builds live dealer casino, live game shows.
At the top of the records on its page sits Malta Gaming Authority. MGA/CRP/187/2010 is a licence held by Evolution Gaming Malta Limited.
A figure quoted for one of its titles is traceable to the studio itself, as RTP is something it publishes. RTP figures for Evolution’s game-show titles are reported consistently by third-party sources, and they are recorded as published..
JDB Gaming explained
Offers no founding year and no headquarters. Builds fish shooting games, slots.
Its page opens with a record from PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). An approved game content list is kept by PAGCOR on its official website.
It publishes no RTP. Elsewhere the figures in circulation are third-party estimates that conflict with each other, and this site quotes none for its titles.
The game itself is where game provider details can be looked up
There is nothing on this page you have to take on faith. A public register is the source of every licence claim on these pages, and those registers are open:
- Searching the MGA authorisation portal by the company name instead of the brand name is the way to look up a Malta licence. Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence sits with Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited rather than anything named Pragmatic Play, which shows how often the licensee is a differently named subsidiary.
- A UK licence can be found by entering the account number in the Gambling Commission public register. Activities and the date each began are shown for an active licence, and the same record carries any regulatory settlement against the holder.
- Where the PAGCOR EGLD listing lives: the studio’s approved-games PDF, posted on pagcor.ph. Note what the approval covers, which is game content for licensed operators. No statement in the document that the studio holds a licence means it holds no licence.
- An RTP figure for one title sits on the studio’s own page for it; open that page. A comparison site cannot provide a figure that is absent there, and if two of them differ, the difference is what you learn.
The thing most often got wrong here
A PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing are different things, and that difference is the one that matters most here. The meaning of an EGLD listing is simple: PAGCOR has cleared the studio’s game content for operators that hold its licence. This is not a licence the studio holds, nor does it say anything about a casino that carries those games.
Just that, and no more, is what four of the seven studios below can show. Their pages spell it out in plain language, because “PAGCOR listed” differs from “PAGCOR licensed” by one word and by a world, with the latter being what most readers are hoping to find.
Finding game providers at PHMAPALAD
- At PHMAPALAD, sign in and the game lobby is the next place to open.
- Either narrow the lobby to one studio or type in a title’s name.
- Pull up the info screen for a game and read the stake range and paytable first.
- Before playing, fix a session budget; with a studio you haven’t tried, open at a low stake.
FAQ
Out of these studios, who publishes an RTP figure?
Pragmatic Play, PG Soft, Evolution. For the remaining studios nothing is published, and rather than lift a number from a comparison site, this site quotes no RTP for their titles.
Does a studio licence protect a player?
Not directly. Coverage under a studio licence extends to the company that makes the games. To seek recourse, a player turns to the operator's regulator; that licence is a different one, and another company holds it.
Does PHMAPALAD carry all of these studios?
In the PHMAPALAD lobby, open Games; every game tile carries its studio's name, which shows you which ones are live for you. The description of each studio on these pages comes from the studio's own published record.
PAGCOR licence or PAGCOR EGLD listing: what separates the two?
What an EGLD listing gives is approval of a studio's game content, usable by the operators PAGCOR licenses. Operators are the holders of a PAGCOR licence, which is what authorises them to run a casino. Four studios on this page have the first; none has the second.
Some studios here list neither a founding year nor a headquarters; why is that?
Because they do not publish one. Neither is something JILI or JDB Gaming discloses on its own site. On affiliate listicles, figures for both are passed around with no primary source behind them, and none of them is repeated here.
What does a GLI or BMM certification say about whether a game is fair?
Certification of this kind shows that an independent laboratory has measured both the paytable and the random number generator against a standard. Meaningful as it is, it is no substitute for a licence, and the operator offering the game is left unaddressed by both.