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Game Supplier Licence

Regulation

What is Game Supplier Licence?

The B2B permission a studio needs to supply games in a regulated market. It is why catalogues and game features differ by country.

ByCasino Desk·Casino & Slots Editor

Reviewed byKris Fawkes·Chief Editor

What it means in practice

A game supplier licence is the business-to-business permission a game studio needs before its titles may be supplied to licensed operators in a regulated market. It is separate from the operator's own licence, which authorises taking bets from players. Holding one does not let a studio run a casino, and an operator's licence does not cover the games it hosts. The regulator licenses the supplier as a business, and the games themselves are tested separately by an approved laboratory against the market's technical standard — the random number generator, the mathematics matching the published paytable, the behaviour of a round interrupted mid-spin. Only the specific approved build may be deployed in that market, and any change to the game means a fresh submission. This is why a studio's catalogue is not the same in every country. A title can be missing from a licensed lobby while running normally on a site under a different licence, because the studio never submitted it there or the build failed a local requirement. It is also why features vary: bonus buys, autoplay, turbo spins and certain jackpot structures are permitted in some markets and prohibited in others, so the same game can behave differently depending on where the account is registered.

Why it matters

A definition like this one decides what an offer is actually worth. The same wording turns up in bonus terms, on payment pages and in game rules, and it is usually where a promotion’s real cost is hiding — so it is worth reading an operator’s own terms with this meaning in mind rather than the marketing above them.

You must be of legal gambling age where you live — 18 in most markets, 19 or 21 in others. Understanding a term does not make an outcome more likely: casino games are built to return less than they take over time. Set deposit and time limits before you play.

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