8K8 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here
This section holds 5 pages on game providers.
Key facts and contents
- 8K8 CQ9 Gaming Games
- CQ9 Gaming operates as a game studio, not as an operator.
- 8K8 Evolution Games
- Being a game studio, Evolution is not the same as an operator.
- 8K8 JDB Gaming Games
- JDB Gaming's role is game studio, not operator.
- 8K8 JILI Games
- It's a game studio, not an operator, that JILI is.
- 8K8 Pragmatic Play Games
- Pragmatic Play develops games as a studio and is not an operator.
It is a common mistake, in fact the most common one in this corner of the subject, to confuse a game studio with a casino, since they are different companies with different regulators. For studios whose titles show up in Philippine-facing lobbies, these pages cover identity, actual licensing, and whether a return-to-player figure anyone can check gets published. 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) |
| JDB Gaming | No | fish shooting games, slots | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
| Evolution | Yes | live dealer casino, live game shows | Malta Gaming Authority |
Each single entry gets its own page across these 5, instead of grouped summaries. Any field above reading “not published” is explained by the entry’s own page, which names the would-be publisher.
Each entry in a paragraph
What’s here on each page is enough to know if it’s worth opening.
JILI
A founding year is not published, nor is a headquarters address. Its games span slots, fishing games, table and card games, and bingo.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) is recorded first on its page. JILI’s games are named on PAGCOR EGLD’s approved electronic games list.
It publishes no RTP. None is stated here for its titles, and the third-party estimates circulating elsewhere fail to agree with one another.
Pragmatic Play
Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Slots, live casino, bingo, crash games and virtual sports get built.
On that page, Malta Gaming Authority is the first entry. That licence, MGA/B2B/619/2018, sits with Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited.
Publishing RTP means the studio leaves a traceable source for any figure quoted on its titles. What appears on Pragmatic’s game pages is a single RTP per title, and that number is the ceiling of a set.
CQ9 Gaming
A founding year is not published, nor is a headquarters address. This studio makes slots, fishing games, table games, arcade games.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) is recorded first on its page. A list of approved game content is carried on PAGCOR’s own site.
It publishes no RTP. None is stated here for its titles, and the third-party estimates circulating elsewhere fail to agree with one another.
JDB Gaming
A founding year is not published, nor is a headquarters address. Builds fish shooting games, slots.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) is recorded first on its page. You’ll find game content approvals listed on PAGCOR’s own site.
It publishes no RTP. None is stated here for its titles, and the third-party estimates circulating elsewhere fail to agree with one another.
Evolution
Founded 2006, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Builds live dealer casino, live game shows.
On that page, Malta Gaming Authority is the first entry. Licence number MGA/CRP/187/2010 sits with Evolution Gaming Malta Limited.
Publishing RTP means the studio leaves a traceable source for any figure quoted on its titles. Across third-party sources, Evolution’s game-show titles report matching RTP figures, which is why they’re recorded as publishing RTP..
Game itself is where provider details can be checked
Nothing shown here needs to be taken purely on trust. Each licence claim across these pages is drawn from a public register that stays open:
- Checking a Malta licence means opening the MGA authorisation portal and searching the company name over the brand name. The entity holding the licence is often a differently named subsidiary — Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited, for instance, holds Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence, not any company called Pragmatic Play.
- For any UK licence, the account number is searchable on the Gambling Commission public register. You can see an active licence’s activities and when each began, and any regulatory settlement against the holder sits on that same record.
- On pagcor.ph, the studio’s approved-games PDF is where a PAGCOR EGLD listing can be found. This approves game content for licensed operators — read it that way. The absence of a licence statement in the document means the studio does not hold one.
- That specific title’s RTP figure lives on the studio’s own page. Where the figure is missing, comparison sites can’t supply it, and where two of them disagree, that disagreement is the finding.
The thing most often got wrong here
A PAGCOR operator licence differs from a PAGCOR EGLD listing, and that’s the distinction that counts most here. A studio’s game content being EGLD-listed means PAGCOR has cleared it for use by operators it licenses. The studio does not hold this as a licence, and no casino carrying those games is addressed by it.
Only that is available for four of the seven studios listed below. Every page states this in plain words, because “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” are one word apart yet worlds apart — and readers are usually hoping to have found the second one.
Finding game providers at 8K8
- Sign in at 8K8 and open the game lobby.
- Look for a title by name in the search, or filter the lobby by studio.
- Review stake range and paytable on the game’s info screen ahead of playing.
- Put a session budget in place first, and keep stakes low when trying new studios.
FAQ
Which of these studios make an RTP figure public?
Pragmatic Play, Evolution. For their remaining titles, this site quotes no RTP, rather than sourcing one from a comparison site.
Does a studio licence protect a player?
Not directly. What a studio licence covers is the game-making company. The regulator behind the operator, a different licence under a different company, is where a player's recourse runs.
Does 8K8 carry all of these studios?
Open Games in the 8K8 lobby: each game tile names its studio, so you can see which ones are live for you. Every studio's entry here is built from its own published record.
What is it that separates a PAGCOR licence from a PAGCOR EGLD listing?
A studio earns approval for PAGCOR-licensed operators to use its game content by way of an EGLD listing. A PAGCOR licence is granted to an operator, authorising it to run a casino. Four out of these studios have the first, and the second is nowhere among them.
Why aren't a founding year and headquarters given for some studios here?
Because they do not publish one. Neither is disclosed by JILI, CQ9 Gaming, or JDB Gaming on their own sites. This page repeats none of the figures for both, which circulate only on affiliate listicles with no primary source.
Does a certification from GLI or BMM tell you a game is fair?
An independent test laboratory examined the paytable and the random number generator together, against a standard, which is what this means. It carries weight, is different from a licence, and neither one tells you the operator offers the game.