JL59 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here
Game providers get 5 pages, and those pages are this entire section.
- JL59 CQ9 Gaming Games
- CQ9 Gaming is a studio that makes games, and not an operator.
- JL59 FA CHAI Gaming Games
- FA CHAI Gaming falls in the game-studio category rather than the operator one.
- JL59 JILI Games
- JILI makes games and does not operate a casino.
- JL59 PG Soft Games
- PG Soft supplies games, so it counts as a studio and never as an operator.
- JL59 Pragmatic Play Games
- Studio, not operator: that is what Pragmatic Play is, since it creates games.
People most often go wrong here by treating a game studio and a casino as the same thing, when they are different companies with different regulators. If a studio’s titles show up in Philippine-facing lobbies, you will find it here, along with its background, the licensed scope it really has, and any return-to-player figure it publishes that you can check for yourself.
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 |
| FA CHAI Gaming | Yes | slots, 3D fishing games | Curacao Gaming Authority — status unresolved |
| CQ9 Gaming | No | slots, fishing games | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
5 pages, and each takes one entry on its own without rolling up several. When a field higher on the page reads “not published”, the entry’s page itself says which party should have published it.
Each entry in a paragraph
Just sufficient detail to tell you which page deserves a click.
JILI explained
Its founding year and its headquarters are both left unstated. Fishing games, bingo, slots, plus table and card games, are what it makes.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) appears as the first record when you open its page. PAGCOR EGLD’s list of approved electronic games shows JILI titles.
It publishes no RTP. No figure for its titles appears on this site, and the ones passed around elsewhere are estimates from third parties that do not agree.
Pragmatic Play in full
Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Games it makes: live casino, virtual sports, bingo, slots and crash titles.
On its page, the first record is Malta Gaming Authority. Under licence MGA/B2B/619/2018, Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited is the holder.
The studio publishes RTP, which means any figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced to it. Pragmatic’s game pages give one RTP per title, and it is the highest value in a range of settings.
PG Soft explained
Founded 2015, based in Valletta, Malta. Builds slots.
On its page, the first record is Malta Gaming Authority. Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195) is what the MGA/B2B/435/2017 licence lists as its holder.
The studio publishes RTP, which means any figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced to it. RTP is available from PG Soft in its game data but is not rendered on the visitor’s page, where the visible field is a blank dash; the figure comes in the data the server sends with the page.
The FA CHAI Gaming entry
Founded 2019, and states no headquarters. Makes 3D fishing games, slots, arcade games and table games.
Curacao Gaming Authority appears as the first record when you open its page. FA CHAI’s site has WiseInNet Technologies B.V.
The studio publishes RTP, which means any figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced to it. On its own public games listing, FA CHAI lists RTP directly; no other studio of the seven is as straightforward to check..
CQ9 Gaming in full
Its founding year and its headquarters are both left unstated. Develops table games, arcade games, slots and fishing games.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) appears as the first record when you open its page. Approvals of game content are catalogued in a list on PAGCOR’s own site.
It publishes no RTP. No figure for its titles appears on this site, and the ones passed around elsewhere are estimates from third parties that do not agree.
Open the game itself to verify game providers details
Blind belief is never part of reading this page. Each licence claim on these pages was taken from a public register, and any reader may open those registers:
- Checking a Malta licence means opening the MGA authorisation portal and entering the company name, since the brand name will not turn it up. A subsidiary under a different name frequently holds the licence, for example Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited holds Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence, and nothing carries the name Pragmatic Play.
- A UK licence can be found by entering the account number into the Gambling Commission public register. An active licence lists its activities along with the date each started, and the same record shows any regulatory settlement against the holder.
- Pagcor.ph hosts the studio’s approved-games PDF, and that document is where a PAGCOR EGLD listing is found. Before you rely on it, check exactly what this grants: game content, issued to licensed operators. A studio holds no licence unless the document states that it does.
- An RTP figure is best taken from the studio’s page dedicated to that exact title. No comparison site can provide a figure that the source lacks, and should two comparison sites contradict each other, that contradiction tells you something.
The thing most often got wrong here
Telling a PAGCOR operator licence apart from a PAGCOR EGLD listing is the point that matters most on this topic. Through an EGLD listing, PAGCOR approves a studio’s game content so that operators it licenses can use it. Nothing here is a licence held by the studio, and no casino carrying those games is covered by it either.
Only four of the seven studios below have nothing more than that. Their pages put this in plain words, because “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” differ by just one word yet mean entirely different things, and the second is usually what a reader hopes to have found.
Finding game providers at JL59
- Log in to JL59, then go to the game lobby.
- Pick a studio in the lobby filter, or look a title up by name.
- Check a game’s stake range and paytable on its info screen, which you open before you play.
- Fix your session budget up front, and play any unfamiliar studio’s games at a low stake to begin with.
FAQ
Which of these studios release an RTP figure?
Pragmatic Play, PG Soft, FA CHAI Gaming. Studios outside that group publish nothing, so this site gives no RTP for their titles and never takes a number from a comparison site to fill the gap.
Does a studio licence protect a player?
Not directly. Whoever makes the games is the party a studio licence is issued to. When something goes wrong, a player turns to the regulator that oversees the operator, whose licence is separate and belongs to another company.
Does JL59 carry all of these studios?
Open Games in the JL59 lobby: each game tile names its studio, so you can see which ones are live for you. Each studio is written up here using only what it has published about itself.
How does a PAGCOR licence differ from being on the PAGCOR EGLD list?
A studio's game content gets approved for the use of operators that PAGCOR licenses through an EGLD listing. An operator that holds a PAGCOR licence is authorised to run a casino. Four studios in this list hold the first item, while the second is held by none.
What accounts for a studio here lacking a founding year or headquarters?
Because they do not publish one. On their own sites, neither JILI nor CQ9 Gaming discloses these. No primary source backs the figures floating around affiliate listicles for either one, so none of them is repeated here.
Is a game fair just because a GLI or BMM certification covers it?
Its meaning is that an outside test laboratory, independent of the operator, has checked the random number generator and paytable to a set standard. It carries meaning and differs from a licence, and neither says anything regarding the operator that offers the game.