MNL168 Game Providers — Every Studio Covered Here
Game providers get their own coverage here, spread across 5 pages in this section.
- MNL168 CQ9 Gaming Games
- Don't mistake CQ9 Gaming for an operator — its business is building games.
- MNL168 FA CHAI Gaming Games
- Think of FA CHAI Gaming as a game studio — it doesn't operate as a casino itself.
- MNL168 JDB Gaming Games
- Think of JDB Gaming as a studio that makes games, not a casino operator.
- MNL168 JILI Games
- Think game-maker, not casino operator, when you think of JILI.
- MNL168 PG Soft Games
- PG Soft operates as a game studio, not an operator.
Casinos and game studios operate under separate regulators as separate companies, and mixing the two up ranks as the single most common misunderstanding in this corner of the subject. Covered on these pages are the studios whose titles show up in Philippine-facing lobbies — their identity, what they’re actually licensed for, and whether a checkable return-to-player figure is published. There are 5 pages below.
Everything in this section
| Studio | Publishes RTP | Specialisms | Licence position |
|---|---|---|---|
| PG Soft | Yes | slots | Malta Gaming Authority |
| FA CHAI Gaming | Yes | slots, 3D fishing games | Curacao Gaming Authority — status unresolved |
| JDB Gaming | No | fish shooting games, slots | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
| JILI | No | slots, fishing games | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
| CQ9 Gaming | No | slots, fishing games | PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) |
5 pages in total, each dedicated to a single entry rather than summarising several at once. Wherever a field above shows “not published”, the page it belongs to spells out exactly who was in a position to publish it.
Each entry in a paragraph
Each entry gets just enough treatment for you to spot the page that deserves a click.
PG Soft explained
Founded 2015, based in Valletta, Malta. Builds slots.
Malta Gaming Authority is the entry that leads off its page’s record list. Holding licence MGA/B2B/435/2017 is Pocket Games Software Limited, registration number C 76195.
Since RTP is published, any figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced straight back to the studio. Even though PG Soft’s game data contains the RTP figure, delivered in the data sent with the page, the visible page renders only a blank dash for that field.
The FA CHAI Gaming entry
Founded 2019, and states no headquarters. Slots, 3D fishing games, arcade games and table games all come out of its build list.
Scanning its page, Curacao Gaming Authority is the record you hit first. WiseInNet Technologies B.V., holder of licence OGL/2024/1184/1010, is the operator behind FA CHAI’s site.
Since RTP is published, any figure quoted for one of its titles can be traced straight back to the studio. Compared with the other six studios here, FA CHAI is the easiest to verify on RTP, thanks to its own public games listing showing the figure directly..
JDB Gaming explained
No founding year gets published here, nor is any headquarters given. Builds fish shooting games, slots.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) tops the list of records shown on its page. A list of approved game content sits on PAGCOR’s own website.
It publishes no RTP. None are quoted here for its titles, and whatever figures circulate elsewhere are conflicting third-party estimates.
JILI explained
No founding year gets published here, nor is any headquarters given. Slots lead a build list that also runs to fishing games, table and card games, and bingo.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) tops the list of records shown on its page. JILI titles are part of PAGCOR EGLD’s approved electronic games list.
It publishes no RTP. None are quoted here for its titles, and whatever figures circulate elsewhere are conflicting third-party estimates.
CQ9 Gaming in full
No founding year gets published here, nor is any headquarters given. Four kinds of games make up its output: slots, fishing games, table games, arcade games.
PAGCOR (Electronic Gaming Licensing Department) tops the list of records shown on its page. A list of approved game content is what PAGCOR maintains on its own site.
It publishes no RTP. None are quoted here for its titles, and whatever figures circulate elsewhere are conflicting third-party estimates.
Game provider details are something you can confirm right inside the game itself
Each point on this page is one you can check for yourself rather than accept. You can trace every licence claim on these pages back to a public register, and every one of those registers is open for anyone to check:
- To confirm a Malta licence, pull up the MGA authorisation portal and look up the company name, not the brand name. More often than not, a subsidiary under a completely different name is the actual licensee — take the Malta licence for Pragmatic Play, which sits with Pragmatic Solutions MT Limited rather than any company named Pragmatic Play.
- A UK licence is confirmed by searching the Gambling Commission public register using the account number. One record covers it all for an active licence — the activities it authorises, when each one started, and any regulatory settlement the holder has picked up.
- A PAGCOR EGLD listing can be confirmed by locating the studio’s approved-games PDF on pagcor.ph. Focus on the actual scope of the approval — it’s game content intended for licensed operators. The studio holds no licence unless the document actually says so.
- To pull up an RTP number, go directly to the studio’s page dedicated to that title. A missing figure stays missing — no comparison site can conjure it — and when two comparison sites contradict each other, that contradiction is itself the answer.
The thing most often got wrong here
Above everything else, what you need to separate here is a PAGCOR operator licence from a PAGCOR EGLD listing. PAGCOR’s licensed operators get the green light to use a studio’s game content precisely when that content carries an EGLD listing. This isn’t something the studio holds by way of a licence, nor does it tell you anything about whichever casino happens to carry those games.
Only that applies to four out of the five studios listed below. Every page of theirs is upfront about it: “PAGCOR listed” and “PAGCOR licensed” differ by a single word yet describe entirely different things — and it’s usually the licensed claim that a reader was hoping for.
Finding game providers at MNL168
- At MNL168, sign in first and head into the game lobby.
- Either browse by studio using the lobby filter, or just type the title you want into search.
- Before you commit any money, pull up the game’s info screen and check its stake range along with the paytable.
- Nail down a session budget before you do anything else, then keep your opening bets small with any studio that’s new to you.
FAQ
Which among these studios actually publish an RTP figure?
PG Soft, FA CHAI Gaming. As for the rest, nothing gets quoted here either — this site won't pull a number from a comparison site just to fill an RTP gap.
Does a studio licence protect a player?
Not directly. Licensing a studio means licensing the firm that produces its games. If a player needs recourse, it goes through the operator's regulator instead — and that's a separate licence belonging to a separate company altogether.
Does MNL168 carry all of these studios?
Open Games in the MNL168 lobby: each game tile names its studio, so you can see which ones are live for you. A studio's own published record is the lens through which these pages describe it.
How exactly does a PAGCOR licence differ from being listed under PAGCOR EGLD?
What an EGLD listing signifies is PAGCOR's approval of a studio's game content for operators it licenses to use. The authority to operate a casino comes packaged with a PAGCOR licence, and operators are the ones who hold it. The first applies to four of the studios here, and not a single one has the second.
How come a number of the studios listed here skip both a founding year and a headquarters?
Because they do not publish one. None of the three — JDB Gaming, JILI, CQ9 Gaming — discloses either figure on its own site. Both sets of figures float around affiliate listicles without any primary source behind them, and neither is repeated on this page.
If a game carries a GLI or BMM certification, is fairness something you can assume from that?
Two things get checked here: the random number generator and the paytable, both benchmarked against a standard by an independent test laboratory. This carries real significance despite being distinct from a licence, yet neither status tells you anything about the operator that offers the game.