How many of these studios actually publish an RTP figure?

Evolution, Pragmatic Play, PG Soft. Where no studio has published a figure, this site doesn't go fetch one from a comparison site to fill the hole — it simply states none.

Does a studio licence protect a player?

Not directly. It's the game-development firm, not the brand, that a studio licence exists to cover. Follow a player's recourse and it leads to the operator's regulator — separate licence, separate company altogether.

Does MEGAPERYA carry all of these studios?

Open Games in the MEGAPERYA lobby: each game tile names its studio, so you can see which ones are live for you. A studio's description here comes from nowhere but the record that studio itself puts out.

PAGCOR licence, PAGCOR EGLD listing — in practical terms, what's not the same?

What an EGLD listing approves is a studio's game content for use by PAGCOR-licensed operators. PAGCOR grants the licence to an operator specifically, and that grant is what lets the operator run a casino. The first applies to four of the studios here, while none of them has the second.

A handful of studios on this page show neither a founding year nor a headquarters — what's the reason behind that gap?

Because they do not publish one. Neither is disclosed on JILI's or JDB Gaming's own sites. Both figures show up on affiliate listicles with no primary source, and neither is repeated on this page.

Just because a game carries GLI or BMM certification, does that automatically make it fair?

An independent test laboratory has checked the random number generator and the paytable against a standard — that's what it means. Neither says a thing about which operator is running the game — yet it isn't meaningless, and it isn't a licence either.

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Regulators differ, companies differ — a game studio is simply not a casino, and blurring that line is where most confusion in this corner of the subject starts. Who each studio is, what they’re actually licensed to do, and whether they publish a checkable return-to-player figure — that’s what these pages cover, for studios whose titles turn up in Philippine-facing lobbies. There are 5 pages below.

Everything in this section

Studio	Publishes RTP	Specialisms	Licence position
Evolution	Yes	live dealer casino, live game shows	Malta Gaming Authority
Pragmatic Play	Yes	slots, live casino	Malta Gaming Authority
JILI	No	slots, fishing games	PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department)
PG Soft	Yes	slots	Malta Gaming Authority
JDB Gaming	No	fish shooting games, slots	PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department)

Coverage here runs to 5 pages, and none of them bundles multiple entries into one write-up — each handles exactly one. If a field above shows “not published”, head to that entry’s own page, where the responsible publisher is spelled out.

Each entry in a paragraph

Each entry gets just the detail needed to point you toward the page worth clicking into.

The Evolution entry

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

Malta Gaming Authority occupies the very first slot on its page’s record list. Evolution Gaming Malta Limited holds this under licence MGA/CRP/187/2010.

RTP disclosure by the studio is what makes a quoted figure for one of its titles checkable against the source. An RTP-publishing record belongs to Evolution’s game-show titles, since third-party sources report their RTP figures the same way every time..

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Its development portfolio touches slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports alike.

Malta Gaming Authority occupies the very first slot on its page’s record list. The name behind licence MGA/B2B/619/2018 is Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited Confirmation of Licensed status for the casino-vertical B2B Critical Supply Licence sits on the MGA’s own verification portal rather than on Pragmatic’s site..

RTP disclosure by the studio is what makes a quoted figure for one of its titles checkable against the source. Pragmatic’s own game pages list just one RTP per title — the ceiling of the set — while independent records show three operator-selectable configurations for most titles, such as Gates of Olympus 1000 at 96.50 / 95.51 / 94.50 per cent and Sweet Bonanza 1000 at 96.53 / 95.52 / 94.51 per cent, none of which appear on Pragmatic’s own pages.

JILI explained

Neither a founding year gets published nor a headquarters gets identified. Its development catalogue spans slots, fishing games, table and card titles, and bingo.

PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) can be found holding the first record on its page. JILI shows up as one of the developers whose titles PAGCOR EGLD has approved for electronic games.

It publishes no RTP. None are quoted here for its titles, and the figures found elsewhere are third-party estimates that don’t agree with one another.

PG Soft explained

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

Malta Gaming Authority occupies the very first slot on its page’s record list. Pocket Games Software Limited, registered C 76195, is named as holder of licence MGA/B2B/435/2017 The MGA’s verification portal lists a Licensed status for a B2B Critical Supply Licence in the casino vertical Effective 29 September 2020, a compliance breach brought an MGA suspension down on that same licence, which was later reinstated.

RTP disclosure by the studio is what makes a quoted figure for one of its titles checkable against the source. PG Soft publishes RTP within its game data and ships it in the data accompanying the page, but the page itself, as rendered for visitors, shows only a blank dash in that field.

JDB Gaming explained

Neither a founding year gets published nor a headquarters gets identified. Builds fish shooting games, slots.

PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) can be found holding the first record on its page. PAGCOR’s own site publishes a list approving game content.

It publishes no RTP. None are quoted here for its titles, and the figures found elsewhere are third-party estimates that don’t agree with one another.

Look at the game itself for its provider details

Every point made here can be verified, leaving nothing that has to be trusted outright. Those registers are open, and every licence claim on these pages traces back to one:

Searching the MGA authorisation portal by company name rather than brand name is how a Malta licence gets confirmed. Often the licensee is a differently named subsidiary: Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence belongs to Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited, not to anything called Pragmatic Play.
Confirming that a UK licence exists is a matter of pulling up the Gambling Commission’s public register and searching under the account number. An active licence lists its activities and when each one began, and any regulatory settlement against the holder shows up on that same record.
Confirmation for a PAGCOR EGLD listing sits inside the studio’s approved-games PDF, which pagcor.ph makes available. What it’s actually approving is game content for licensed operators. A licence exists for the studio only when the document actually states one; otherwise none is held.
When you need an RTP figure, go to the studio’s own page for that particular title. Comparison sites cannot manufacture a missing figure, and when two of them land on conflicting numbers, that conflict itself becomes the finding.

The thing most often got wrong here

Keeping a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing straight in your head is, above everything, what this section is really about. Game content from a studio only becomes usable by PAGCOR’s licensed operators after PAGCOR grants it an EGLD listing. The studio doesn’t hold it as a licence, and it says nothing about any casino carrying those games.

Just four out of seven studios below can lay claim to that much, no more. Each of their pages spells that out plainly, since “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” differ by one word yet mean worlds apart — and the second is usually what a reader was hoping to find.

Finding game providers at MEGAPERYA

After logging in to MEGAPERYA, pull up the game lobby.
Two routes exist: narrow the lobby to a studio, or type a title straight into search.
Before playing, pull up a game’s info screen to check its stake range and paytable.
Put your session budget in place before playing, and keep opening stakes modest whenever a studio is new to you.

MEGAPERYA Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here