NICE88 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here
Game providers occupy 5 pages of this section.
Key facts and contents
- NICE88 FA CHAI Gaming Games
- You won't find FA CHAI Gaming running a casino — it builds the games instead, as a studio.
- NICE88 JDB Gaming Games
- JDB Gaming builds games; it doesn't operate a casino itself.
- NICE88 JILI Games
- JILI builds games; it doesn't operate a casino itself.
- NICE88 Pragmatic Play Games
- Casinos aren't what Pragmatic Play runs; games are what it builds, strictly as a studio.
- NICE88 PG Soft Games
- PG Soft builds games; it doesn't operate a casino itself.
Lumping a game studio in with a casino is the single biggest slip in this corner of the subject, given that each is its own business answering to its own oversight body. Covered on these pages are the studios whose titles appear in Philippine-facing lobbies — who they are, what they are actually licensed to do, and whether they publish a checkable return-to-player figure. There are 5 pages below.
Everything in this section
| Studio | Publishes RTP | Specialisms | Licence position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pragmatic Play | Yes | slots, live casino | Malta Gaming Authority |
| JILI | No | slots, fishing games | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
| FA CHAI Gaming | Yes | slots, 3D fishing games | Curacao Gaming Authority — status unresolved |
| PG Soft | Yes | slots | Malta Gaming Authority |
| JDB Gaming | No | fish shooting games, slots | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
5 pages in total, each devoted to a single entry instead of summarising several. You can find out who was supposed to publish it by checking the entry’s own page whenever a field above says “not published”.
Each entry in a paragraph
Just enough on each one so you know which page is actually worth opening.
Pragmatic Play in full
Founded 2015, based in Gibraltar. Its catalogue covers crash games, virtual sports, bingo, live casino and slots.
Malta Gaming Authority tops the record list shown on its page. The holder recorded against licence MGA/B2B/619/2018 is Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited.
Since the studio makes RTP public, any number cited for one of its titles can be tracked straight back to it. Just one RTP appears per title on Pragmatic’s game pages, sitting at the top of a broader set of values.
JILI explained
This entry gives you no founding date and no headquarters. Its output spans slots, fishing games, table and card games, bingo.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) is the credential that tops its page’s record list. PAGCOR EGLD’s approved list of electronic games carries JILI’s titles.
It publishes no RTP. None is quoted here for its titles, and the numbers floating around elsewhere are third-party estimates that don’t even agree with one another.
The FA CHAI Gaming entry
Founded 2019, and states no headquarters. Slot machines, 3D fishing games, arcade titles, and table games all come from this developer.
Curacao Gaming Authority is the first record listed on its page. Under licence OGL/2024/1184/1010, WiseInNet Technologies B.V.
Since the studio makes RTP public, any number cited for one of its titles can be tracked straight back to it. These seven studios vary in checkability, and FA CHAI ranks easiest, since RTP is shown right on its own public games listing..
PG Soft explained
Founded 2015, based in Valletta, Malta. Builds slots.
Malta Gaming Authority tops the record list shown on its page. The licence held by Pocket Games Software Limited (C 76195) is numbered MGA/B2B/435/2017.
Since the studio makes RTP public, any number cited for one of its titles can be tracked straight back to it. A visitor looking for RTP on PG Soft’s page finds only a blank dash, despite the number being present in the game data the server sends alongside the page.
JDB Gaming explained
This entry gives you no founding date and no headquarters. Builds fish shooting games, slots.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) is the credential that tops its page’s record list. PAGCOR’s own site maintains a list that approves game content.
It publishes no RTP. None is quoted here for its titles, and the numbers floating around elsewhere are third-party estimates that don’t even agree with one another.
Verify game providers details directly inside the game itself
You don’t have to accept anything on this page purely on faith. Each licence claim here traces to a public register, and those registers are open for anyone to check:
- Checking a Malta licence means pulling up the MGA authorisation portal and searching under the company’s actual name, not its brand. A differently named subsidiary is often the actual licensee — Pragmatic Play’s Malta licence sits with Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited, not with any entity called Pragmatic Play.
- A UK licence gets verified by running its account number through the Gambling Commission’s public register. On an active licence you’ll see its activities plus the date each began, and any regulatory settlement against the holder shows up on that same record.
- Pagcor.ph hosts each studio’s approved-games PDF, and that document is what confirms a PAGCOR EGLD listing. What it approves, stated plainly, is game content for licensed operators. Assume no licence exists for the studio unless the document explicitly states one.
- The place to look for an RTP figure is the studio’s own page for that title. A comparison site has nothing to offer when the number was never published in the first place, and when two of them land on different figures, that clash itself becomes the takeaway.
The thing most often got wrong here
What matters most here is the gap between a PAGCOR operator licence and a PAGCOR EGLD listing. When a studio’s content carries an EGLD listing, that reflects PAGCOR’s sign-off for use by the operators under its licence. The studio doesn’t hold this as a licence, and it says nothing about any casino carrying those games.
Out of the seven studios shown below, four don’t offer anything beyond that one item. Every one of their pages states this plainly, since “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” differ by a single word yet mean worlds apart — and it’s usually the second one a reader was hoping to find.
Finding game providers at NICE88
- Sign in at NICE88 and open the game lobby.
- Narrow things down with the studio filter in the lobby, or just type a title’s name into search.
- Before you play, pull up a game’s info screen and read its stake range and paytable.
- Lock in your session budget before anything else, and keep the opening stake modest whenever you try a studio you haven’t played.
FAQ
Not all of these studios publish an RTP figure -- so which ones do?
Pragmatic Play, FA CHAI Gaming, PG Soft. Where a studio hasn't published its own RTP, this site simply leaves it blank instead of pulling a number from some third-party site.
Does a studio licence protect a player?
Not directly. It's the game-making company, not anyone else, that a studio licence covers. A separate licence, under a separate firm, defines the operator's regulator — and that's exactly where a player's recourse goes.
Does NICE88 carry all of these studios?
Open Games in the NICE88 lobby: each game tile names its studio, so you can see which ones are live for you. Each studio here is described using its own published record.
PAGCOR issues both a licence and an EGLD listing — how do the two actually differ?
An EGLD listing approves a studio's game content for use by the operators PAGCOR licenses. Running a casino becomes possible only once an operator secures a PAGCOR licence, which is issued directly to it. The first applies to four of the studios here; the second applies to none of them.
There's no founding year or headquarters shown for a number of these studios — what's the explanation?
Because they do not publish one. Neither number is published by JILI or JDB Gaming through their respective websites. Both figures circulate on affiliate listicles without a primary source behind them, and neither gets repeated on this page.
GLI and BMM certifications get cited often — but do they actually tell you a game is fair?
This signifies that both the random number generator and the paytable have been checked by an independent test laboratory against a standard. This isn't trivial, and it isn't a licence either — nor does either one tell you which operator is offering the game.