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To some people’s surprise, a fully licensed online casino doesn’t actually make the games it offers to its registered members. Instead, the operators get them from licensed software providers/game development studios.
Revealed on this page are some of the iGaming industry’s most notable providers that currently supply the world’s best games to Canada’s most trusted online casinos.
Where do casino sites get their games?
Back in the day, online casinos would very rarely have games from multiple providers. For example, some online casinos might be powered by Microgaming (which was acquired by Games Global in May 2022), while others might be powered entirely by Playtech, IGT, or NetEnt software.
In the early days (the mid-90s to early 2000s), there were just a handful of companies that produced online casino games and then supplied those games to online casinos, but today, there are well over 100 companies that make online casino games.
Also, online casinos today tend to have a wide variety of slots and other games from 10 to 50 or more game development studios instead of just one company, which gives players far more choice and variety than ever before.
Take Unibet online casino Canada, for example. This reputable Canadian online casino has games from 96 different companies and software developers.
Let’s take a look at some of the major providers that supply games here and roughly how many games you can find here from each provider. They include the following notable companies, many of which have won multiple iGaming awards for their cutting-edge and pioneering products:
- Play’n GO – 258 games
- Pragmatic Play – 198 games
- Relax Gaming – 109 games
- NetEnt – 98 games
- Big Time Gaming (BTG) – 40 games
- Blueprint Gaming – 89 games
- Red Tiger Gaming – 186 games
- Microgaming/Games Global – 44 games
- Evolution Gaming – 220 games
- ELK Studios – 75 games
- Stakelogic – 15 games
- Yggdrasil Gaming – 95 games
- Pragmatic Play – 108 games
- Thunderkick – 58 games
- SG Digital – 60 games
- Playtech – 57 games
- Inspired Gaming – 42 games
There are hundreds of games to choose from, plus new ones arrive at least once or twice weekly without fail throughout the year.
Do some of these companies work together?
That’s a good question. In the early days, the leading online casino software providers like Microgaming, Playtech and NetEnt would develop games in-house and only supply their games to online casinos.
However, it’s completely different for some of these same companies today. Several major providers have partnered with numerous other independent studios.
For example, when you play at a Playtech-powered casino, such as Unibet, you can also find games from their subsidiary companies, not just Playtech.
This is why when you launch a Playtech slot, you might see on the loading screen that the game was, in fact, developed by Rarestone Gaming, Vikings, Origins, Eyecon, Quickspin, or Ash Gaming.
What other companies have partnerships with smaller, independent studios?
There are many others. Yggdrasil Gaming also has games from Bulletproof Games, Peter & Sons, 4ThePlayer, Reel Play, Bang Bang Games, Jelly Games, 3 Triple Cherry, Reflex Gaming, AceRun, Reel Life Games, Avatar UX, and Northern Lights, to name a few.
Games Global has games from Triple Edge Studios, Gold Coin Studios, Crazy Tooth Studio, Fortune Factory Studios, All41 Studios, Just for the Win (JFTW) Studios, Stormcraft Studios, Gameburger Studios, Alchemy Gaming, Slingshot Studios, Switch Studios, Neon Valley Studios, and many others.
Another example is SG Digital, which has games from Barcrest, WMS Gaming, Red7, Shuffle Master, Bally Technologies, and others. The list goes on.
Can the games from these companies be trusted?
Yes. The software providers making these games have obtained the necessary licenses from reputable top-tier licensing authorities in many of the world’s most trusted jurisdictions. The games are frequently tested for fairness by reputable third-party testing agencies and have above-average payout rates.
In other words, they rank among the world’s safest and most secure online casino games.
