Which studios among these actually publish an RTP figure?

Pragmatic Play, PG Soft, Evolution. As for the rest, no RTP appears here for their titles, since this site won't import a figure from a comparison site just to fill the blank.

Does a studio licence protect a player?

Not directly. What's covered by a studio licence is the company behind the games. Where a player can appeal isn't up to the casino — it's the operator's regulator, which issues an entirely different licence to an entirely different company.

Does LUCKY KING carry all of these studios?

Open Games in the LUCKY KING lobby: each game tile names its studio, so you can see which ones are live for you. Each studio here is described from its own published record.

PAGCOR licence and PAGCOR EGLD listing sound alike — what's the real gap between them?

An EGLD listing approves a studio's game content for use by operators that PAGCOR licenses. An operator needs a PAGCOR licence in hand before it's authorised to run a casino at all. The first applies to four of the studios here, and none of them has the second.

For some of the studios featured here, why is there nothing shown for founding year or headquarters?

Because they do not publish one. Neither figure gets published by JILI or CQ9 Gaming on their respective sites. Both figures show up on affiliate listicles without any primary source, and this page repeats neither.

Can you call a game fair purely because it has GLI or BMM certification?

That indicates an independent test lab has checked both the random number generator and the paytable against a set standard. There's real substance to it, yet it isn't a licence, and either way it says nothing about which operator is offering the game.

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A game studio and a casino sit under separate regulators as separate companies; nothing else in this topic causes as much confusion as mixing the two up. Who these studios are, what they’re actually licensed to do, and whether a checkable return-to-player figure gets published — that’s what these pages cover for studios whose titles show up in Philippine-facing lobbies. There are 5 pages below.

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
CQ9 Gaming	No	slots, fishing games	PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department)
PG Soft	Yes	slots	Malta Gaming Authority
Evolution	Yes	live dealer casino, live game shows	Malta Gaming Authority

This section splits into 5 pages, each holding just one entry, with no combined summaries. A field above marked “not published” gets clarified on the entry’s own page, which identifies who was supposed to be the publisher.

Each entry in a paragraph

There’s just enough on every entry for you to spot the page that deserves opening.

JILI explained

No founding year appears, and no headquarters gets stated. Its production list covers table and card games, bingo, slots, and fishing games.

PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) heads the record list on its page. JILI-branded titles sit on PAGCOR EGLD’s approved list of electronic games.

It publishes no RTP. For its titles, no figure comes from this site; elsewhere, whatever numbers circulate are just third-party estimates that clash with each other.

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports fall under what it builds.

Malta Gaming Authority is the entry that appears first on its page. Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited is the name on record holding licence MGA/B2B/619/2018.

A figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced to the studio, given that it publishes RTP. For each title, the one RTP shown on Pragmatic’s own game pages marks the top of a wider range rather than an average.

CQ9 Gaming in full

No founding year appears, and no headquarters gets stated. Slots, fishing games, table games and arcade games fall under what it builds.

PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) heads the record list on its page. You can find an approval list for game content directly on PAGCOR’s own site.

It publishes no RTP. For its titles, no figure comes from this site; elsewhere, whatever numbers circulate are just third-party estimates that clash with each other.

PG Soft explained

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

Malta Gaming Authority is the entry that appears first on its page. Pocket Games Software Limited, filed as company C 76195, is on record as holding licence MGA/B2B/435/2017.

A figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced to the studio, given that it publishes RTP. PG Soft’s game data carries an RTP figure, but the page a visitor opens shows only a blank dash for that field, the number instead riding along in the data the server sends with the page.

The Evolution entry

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

Malta Gaming Authority is the entry that appears first on its page. Evolution Gaming Malta Limited is the holder on record for licence MGA/CRP/187/2010.

A figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced to the studio, given that it publishes RTP. Evolution earns a publishing-RTP record because its game-show titles carry RTP figures third-party sources report the same way every time..

Its provider details sit right inside the game itself, ready to check

There’s no need to accept anything here purely on trust. Public registers back every claim of licence made across these pages, and all of them remain open for inspection:

To check a Malta licence, open the MGA authorisation portal and look up the company name, not the brand name. Subsidiaries carrying their own separate names frequently turn out to be the actual licensee — Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence, for one, sits with Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited rather than any company named Pragmatic Play.
To check a UK licence, look up the account number in the Gambling Commission’s public register. An active licence lays out what it covers and the start date for each activity, with any regulatory settlement against the holder appearing in that very same record.
Verifying a PAGCOR EGLD listing means finding the studio’s approved-games PDF on pagcor.ph. This approval’s real scope is game content meant for licensed operators — read it with that in mind. Absent that statement in the document, the studio simply doesn’t hold the licence.
Wanting a title’s RTP number means going straight to that game’s own page on the studio’s site. No comparison site can supply a figure that isn’t there — and when two comparison sites disagree, that disagreement is itself the finding.

The thing most often got wrong here

Above all else discussed here, keep a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing firmly apart in your mind. PAGCOR has approved a studio’s game content for use by its licensed operators when an EGLD listing exists. No studio holds this as a licence, and whichever casino puts these games on offer is left completely out of it.

Just that single item applies to four out of the seven studios below. Their pages don’t shy away from saying it: “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” are separated by nothing more than one word, though the substance behind them couldn’t be more different — and it’s usually the licensed version that readers set out hoping to find.

Finding game providers at LUCKY KING

Log into LUCKY KING, then head to the game lobby.
You can filter the lobby by studio or look up a title by name instead.
Before placing any bets, pull up the info screen to see a game’s stake range and paytable.
Start by setting a session budget, then try new studios at a low stake.

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