PHFUN Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here

This section covers 5 game providers entries. Mixing up the two is the commonest mistake in this corner of the subject, since a game studio and a casino are different companies answering to different regulators. The studios whose titles show up in Philippine-facing lobbies are covered by these pages: who they are, what they are really licensed to do, and whether they publish a return-to-player figure anyone can check.

Everything in this section

Studio	Publishes RTP	Specialisms	Licence position
JILI	No	slots, fishing games	PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department)
CQ9 Gaming	No	slots, fishing games	PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department)
PG Soft	Yes	slots	Malta Gaming Authority
Pragmatic Play	Yes	slots, live casino	Malta Gaming Authority
Evolution	Yes	live dealer casino, live game shows	Malta Gaming Authority

5 pages, and every one is about a single entry instead of summarising several. A field above that reads “not published” is followed, on the entry’s own page, by an explanation of who would have needed to publish it.

Each entry in a paragraph

Each one gets just enough detail to tell you which page deserves your click.

JILI explained

There is no founding year and no headquarters in what it publishes. Slots, fishing games, table and card games, bingo are what it builds.

Its page begins with the record PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). Look at the approved electronic games list from PAGCOR EGLD and JILI titles are there.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates that disagree with each other are the only figures circulating elsewhere, and this site quotes none for its titles.

CQ9 Gaming in full

There is no founding year and no headquarters in what it publishes. Its catalogue spans slots, fishing games, table games, arcade games.

Its page begins with the record PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department). Approved game content is itemised in a list that PAGCOR publishes online.

It publishes no RTP. Third-party estimates that disagree with each other are the only figures circulating elsewhere, and this site quotes none for its titles.

PG Soft explained

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

Malta Gaming Authority is listed first on its page. Licensee: Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195), under reference MGA/B2B/435/2017.

RTP is something it publishes, so the studio can be traced from a figure quoted for one of its titles. On the page a visitor sees, the RTP field shows a blank dash; PG Soft does publish the figure in its game data, which the server sends with the page.

Pragmatic Play in full

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

Malta Gaming Authority is listed first on its page. Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited is the licensee, with reference MGA/B2B/619/2018.

RTP is something it publishes, so the studio can be traced from a figure quoted for one of its titles. That figure, the one RTP per title Pragmatic shows on its own game pages, is the top of a set.

The Evolution entry

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

Malta Gaming Authority is listed first on its page. Evolution Gaming Malta Limited is the licensee named on MGA/CRP/187/2010.

RTP is something it publishes, so the studio can be traced from a figure quoted for one of its titles. Recorded as publishing RTP, since third-party sources report consistent RTP figures for Evolution’s game-show titles..

The thing most often got wrong here

Here, the difference between a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing matters more than anything else. PAGCOR approving a studio’s game content for the operators it licenses is what an EGLD listing means. The studio does not hold it as a licence, and it tells you nothing about any casino that carries those games.

Only that is held by four of the seven studios below. Because “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” differ by one word yet sit worlds apart, each of their pages spells this out plainly, and the second is what a reader typically hopes to have found.

Read game providers details straight from the game’s own screens

You need not take anything here on trust. Public registers are the source of every licence claim on these pages, and anyone can open those registers:

1. Open the MGA authorisation portal for a Malta licence and search by company name, not brand name. Often a subsidiary under a different name is the licensee; Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence sits with Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited, and nothing called Pragmatic Play holds it.
2. Search the Gambling Commission public register by account number for a UK licence. On the same record as an active licence you will find its activities with the start date of each, plus any regulatory settlement made against the holder.
3. The studio’s approved-games PDF on pagcor.ph is where to look for a PAGCOR EGLD listing. What it approves is game content for licensed operators, so read it with that in mind. A studio holds no licence unless the document says it does.
4. Go to the studio’s own page for the specific title if you want an RTP figure. Should the figure be absent there, no comparison site can provide it, and where two comparison sites disagree, the disagreement itself is the finding.

Finding game providers at PHFUN

1. Sign in at PHFUN and open the game lobby.
2. Narrow the lobby to a studio, or look a title up by name.
3. Before a single spin, pull up the game’s info screen for its paytable and the stakes it accepts.
4. Begin with a session budget, and play new studios at a low stake.