D9D9 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here

Studios and casinos are separate companies under separate regulators, and mixing them up is the commonest slip in this part of the subject. Coverage here is of the studios behind titles that appear in Philippine-facing lobbies, meaning who they are, what their licences really permit, and whether a return-to-player figure is published for anyone to check.

Everything in this section

5 pages in all, each given to one entry and none lumping several together. If any field above reads “not published”, the entry’s own page spells out which party would have been obliged to publish it.

Each entry in a paragraph

Each entry carries just enough to let you decide which page merits a visit.

CQ9 Gaming in full

Nothing is stated for a founding year or for a headquarters. What it makes: slots, fishing games, table games, arcade games.

PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) heads the list of records shown on its page. Approved game content is listed in a register hosted on PAGCOR’s own site.

It publishes no RTP. Nothing is quoted on this site for its titles, and what turns up elsewhere is third-party estimation that conflicts with itself.

JDB Gaming explained

Nothing is stated for a founding year or for a headquarters. Builds fish shooting games, slots.

PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) heads the list of records shown on its page. PAGCOR keeps the list of approved game content, on its own site.

It publishes no RTP. Nothing is quoted on this site for its titles, and what turns up elsewhere is third-party estimation that conflicts with itself.

PG Soft explained

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

Malta Gaming Authority is the first entry on its page. Licence MGA/B2B/435/2017 sits with its holder, Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195).

Because the studio posts RTP itself, you can follow any figure cited for one of its titles back to the source. PG Soft includes RTP in its game data yet does not show it on the page visitors see, where the field reads as a blank dash while the number sits in the data the server delivers with that page.

Pragmatic Play in full

Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Its range: slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports.

Malta Gaming Authority is the first entry on its page. The licence is MGA/B2B/619/2018, issued to Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited.

Because the studio posts RTP itself, you can follow any figure cited for one of its titles back to the source. On its own game pages Pragmatic gives a single RTP for each title, and that number is the upper end of a range.

The FA CHAI Gaming entry

Founded 2019, and states no headquarters. Its output spans slots, 3D fishing games, arcade games, table games.

First on its page sits the Curacao Gaming Authority record. FA CHAI’s site comes under licence OGL/2024/1184/1010, held by its operator WiseInNet Technologies B.V.

Because the studio posts RTP itself, you can follow any figure cited for one of its titles back to the source. FA CHAI makes RTP visible directly on its own public games listing, so it is the most straightforwardly checkable of the seven studios here..

The thing most often got wrong here

Here, the difference to keep in mind most is a PAGCOR operator licence against a PAGCOR EGLD listing. When a studio shows up on an EGLD listing, PAGCOR has cleared its game content for the operators that PAGCOR licenses. A studio does not hold it as a licence, and it tells you nothing about the casinos offering those games.

Of the seven studios covered below, four stop at that and offer nothing further. Their pages put it bluntly, since “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” are a single word apart but nowhere near each other in meaning, and the latter is the one readers tend to wish they had found.

Confirm game providers details on the game’s own screen

You are never asked to simply believe anything on these pages. A public register stands behind every licence claim on these pages, and each one is open to read:

1. Searching a Malta licence on the MGA authorisation portal works best by company name; the brand name won’t help. Licences frequently sit with a subsidiary under another name: Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited holds the Malta licence for Pragmatic Play, and no company called Pragmatic Play does.
2. If you need a UK licence, look the account number up in the Gambling Commission public register. A licence in force lists its activities with start dates, and any regulatory settlement against the holder is shown on that same record.
3. When you need a PAGCOR EGLD listing, hunt down the studio’s approved-games PDF on pagcor.ph. Mind the scope of the approval: it covers game content for licensed operators. Should the document be silent on a studio holding a licence, then no licence is held.
4. For the RTP of a title, read that title’s page on the studio’s own site. A figure missing from the source cannot be conjured by a comparison site, and where two such sites contradict each other, the contradiction itself tells you something.

Finding game providers at D9D9

1. Log in to D9D9, then head into the game lobby.
2. Use the studio filter in the lobby, or look a title up by name.
3. Before you play, pull up a game’s info screen and read the stake range and paytable.
4. Fix your session budget before anything else, and put a low stake on any studio you have not played.