Group-Owned Slot Studios and the Companies Behind Them
Follow the ownership trail behind many mid-sized slot studios and you’ll find a bigger company holding the map. The twelve developers on this page all operate inside — or as — a wider corporate group: ELK Studios answers to Light & Wonder, Oryx Gaming to Canada’s Bragg Gaming Group, Stakelogic to Sega Sammy, Swintt to Glitnor, Leander to RAW iGaming, Jelly to EveryMatrix’s orbit, and so on down the list.
This grouping exists because, for these particular studios, ownership is the most useful fact about them. The Evolution-owned giants earn Major status on sheer scale, so they live in that hub instead; here you’ll find the studios whose distribution, funding and strategy flow chiefly from a parent — plus Skywind, itself a sprawling group founded by Playtech co-founder Teddy Sagi.
Corporate structures shift constantly in this industry, so nothing below rests on old press releases: every ownership chain was traced through company filings and the UKGC public register at the time of review.
All 12 group-owned studios
Each card below opens a full review covering the studio itself, the group above it, and what the relationship means for the games.
Retro Gaming Slots & Where to Play 777 Empire Rush
By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 12 July 2026 · Last updated 12 July 2026 Retro Gaming launched in 2021 as an independent brand inside Spinomenal — already reviewed on this site — built specifically around old-school Vegas cabinet...
Triple Edge Studios Slots & Where to Play Lara Croft
By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 12 July 2026 · Last updated 12 July 2026 Triple Edge Studios was built in February 2018 by developers who'd already cut their teeth on the Mega Moolah series at Bally, Scientific Games and IGT — a founding...
Gameburger Studios Slots & Where to Play 9 Masks of Fire
By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 12 July 2026 · Last updated 12 July 2026 Gameburger Studios brands itself as US-style content for non-US markets — "big, bold and full of flavor" — and backs the slogan with one of the more unusual...
ReelNRG Slots & Where to Find Them at UK Casinos
By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 6 July 2026 · Last updated 10 July 2026 ReelNRG is the London studio that shipped its first slots through a 2017 Asia-market tie-up with BetVictor and CQ9 before most UK players had heard the name — then...
Comtrade Gaming (CG Games) Slots & Where to Play
Comtrade Gaming is the 20-plus-year-old Slovenian platform business whose CG Games division only started making its own slots in February 2024. This review covers the CG Games slot catalogue ranked, the RTP tiers, the licence file, and how a platform company’s first swing at content actually holds up. Our verdict: 6/10.
Galaxsys Slots & Where to Find Them at UK Casinos
By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 6 July 2026 · Last updated 10 July 2026 Galaxsys is the Yerevan-based games studio that grew out of Digitain's in-house fast-games team in 2021 and spent its first four years building a reputation almost entirely...
BF Games Slots & Casinos for UK Players
By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 6 July 2026 · Last updated 10 July 2026 BF Games is the London-registered studio — legal name Bee-Fee Limited — that spent its first five years as a captive in-house developer for LV Group's own...
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By Jack Henshaw, Head Writer · Published 6 July 2026 · Last updated 10 July 2026 Boldplay is the Gibraltar-based studio that began life in 2020 as Matrix Studios before rebranding in September 2022, and was itself bought by Asia-facing distributor...
Jelly Entertainment Slots: Where to Play Big Benji Bonanza
Jelly Entertainment is the Norwich studio that took its own name as a mission statement: founded in 2020, shipping its debut game Savanna Roar in October 2021, and building everything since around what it calls the “Jelly twist” — taking familiar slot conventions and reshaping them just enough to feel genuinely different. CEO David Newstead has been candid that its Yggdrasil YG Masters and Stakelogic Greenlogic partnerships cap how many titles it can release, but the trade is real distribution reach few studios this young can match. Our verdict: 7/10. This Jelly Entertainment review covers the best slots ranked, the “Jelly twist” philosophy, and the full licence file.
Leander Games Slots & Where to Play in the UK
Leander Games has one of the more unusual founding stories on this site: launched in 2008 in Buenos Aires by Ramiro Atucha and Marcelo Blanco alongside a team of writers, developers, animators and psychologists — a genuinely eclectic mix for a slots studio. It built the LeGa remote gaming platform, shipped 280+ titles including a licensed Popeye & Olive Oyl slot, and was acquired by RAW iGaming in 2022, which now carries the brand forward with new mechanics like Smash Pots and Bonus Rush layered onto classic Leander IP. Our verdict: 6/10. This Leander Games review covers the best slots ranked, the RAW iGaming era, and the full licence file.
Skywind Group Slots & UK Casinos: Where to Play
Skywind Group has an origin story most studios can’t match: it was founded in 2012 in Minsk by Teddy Sagi, a co-founder of Playtech, one of the biggest names in the industry choosing to build a rival from scratch rather than rest on an existing empire. Now headquartered on the Isle of Man with offices spanning Kiev, Sofia, Nicosia and Sydney, the studio has grown to 600+ staff and 200+ slots, blending original Asian-market-strength titles with a genuinely notable branded-IP wing covering Resident Evil, CSI and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Our verdict: 6/10. This Skywind Group review covers the best slots ranked, the branded-IP portfolio, and the full licence file.
Swintt Slots and Where to Play (2026)
Swintt is the Malta studio that turned “industry veterans starting fresh” into a genuine growth story: founded in April 2019 by CEO David Flynn, a former Head of Operations at Microgaming and CEO of NYX Interactive, and built as the in-house content arm of the Glitnor Group. Within months it won Startup of the Year at the Starlet Awards; within three years it had shipped 140+ titles across three distinct content lines, and landed a genuine celebrity crossover in The Crown, fronted by actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones. Our verdict: 6/10. This Swintt review covers the best slots ranked, the three-tier catalogue structure, and the full licence file.
Oryx Gaming Slots & Where to Play Them in the UK
Oryx Gaming is the Slovenian-founded B2B brand that became the foundation of an entire iGaming group: built in Ljubljana in 2010 by Matevž Mazij, acquired by Canada’s Bragg Gaming Group (NASDAQ/TSX: BRAG) in 2018, and now the licence-holding umbrella over five in-house studios — Oryx itself, Wild Streak Gaming, Spin Games, Atomic Slot Lab and Indigo Magic — all distributed through the single Bragg Hub. Most of the player-facing hits actually come from Wild Streak, the Las Vegas studio Oryx’s UK licence also covers. Our verdict: 7/10. This Oryx Gaming review covers the best slots ranked, how the Bragg studio family fits together, and the full licence file.
Stakelogic Slots & Where to Play in the UK (2026)
Stakelogic is the Eindhoven studio that has changed owners twice without ever changing its Dutch engine room: founded inside Greentube’s Novomatic orbit in 2014, sold to Dutch investor Triple Bells in 2018, and acquired by Japan’s Sega Sammy in a €125 million deal that closed in 2025. Its signature Super Stake™ mechanic lets players pay a 50% premium to double their shot at free spins — one of the clearest, most honestly labelled bet-boost features in the industry. Our verdict: 7/10. This Stakelogic review covers the best Stakelogic slots ranked, how Super Stake works, and the full licence file.
ELK Studios Slots: Where to Play Pirots & More
ELK Studios is the Stockholm studio that asked why players should have to grind toward a slot’s best moment: its X-iter system lets you buy straight into any feature tier, from a boosted base game to the full bonus stack. Founded in 2013, bought by Light & Wonder in 2021 with its creative team left alone, and responsible for Pirots 2’s CollectR mechanic and the Nitropolis demolition series. Our verdict: 8/10. This ELK Studios review covers the best ELK slots ranked, how X-iter actually works, and the full licence file.
Why studios end up inside groups
The acquisitions on this page each tell a strategy. Bragg bought Oryx in 2018 to anchor an entire content-and-aggregation business. Light & Wonder paid for ELK Studios in December 2021 precisely because ELK wasn’t like anything it already owned — and pointedly left its creative independence intact. Sega Sammy’s €125m purchase of Stakelogic, completed in April 2025, bought a Japanese entertainment giant instant access to European regulated markets. And EveryMatrix’s early 2022 investment in Jelly Entertainment shows the other pattern: platforms funding young studios to guarantee themselves fresh exclusive content.
What a parent company means for players
Mostly good things, practically speaking. Group backing brings distribution a small studio couldn’t buy alone — Leander’s 280-title catalogue now travels through RAW Arena, Boldplay’s games gained reach after Openbox Holdings took over in October 2024 — and it stabilises licensing, since the parent’s compliance machinery sits behind the studio’s UKGC account. It can also blur lines worth watching: Galaxsys operates under Digitain’s regulatory umbrella rather than its own licence, and ReelNRG shares a corporate roof with the separate Lady Luck Games brand under Embark Group. Our reviews spell out each arrangement so you know exactly whose name is on the licence.
The pick of the portfolio
One studio here outscores the rest comfortably: ELK Studios (8/10), the Stockholm team behind Pirots 2 and Nitropolis 3, which has arguably got sharper since joining Light & Wonder. Oryx Gaming (7/10) runs five house studios under Bragg and produced Temujin Treasures; Stakelogic (7/10) pairs its Super Stake gamble feature with a growing live-casino arm under Sega Sammy; and Jelly Entertainment (7/10), the Norwich studio behind Big Benji Bonanza, shows how quickly a small team can grow with a platform’s money behind it.
Comparing across categories
Ownership is only one way to slice the market. To rank these twelve against the independents and the giants alike — 62 studios, sortable by score, founding year, owner or RTP — open the site’s complete provider comparison.
Group ownership questions, answered
What does “group-owned” mean for a slot studio?
That the studio belongs to — or operates as part of — a larger corporate group which shapes its funding, distribution and strategy. Examples from this hub include ELK Studios under Light & Wonder, Oryx Gaming under Bragg Gaming Group and Stakelogic under Sega Sammy Holdings.
Why aren’t NetEnt and Red Tiger listed here? They’re owned by Evolution.
Because on this site scale takes precedence over ownership. NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming and Nolimit City are all Evolution companies, but their catalogues and market reach put them in the Major Studios hub. This page is for studios whose group relationship is the defining fact about them.
Does being acquired change a studio’s games?
Sometimes, though rarely overnight. ELK Studios kept explicit creative independence after its 2021 acquisition and its output stayed distinctive; elsewhere, ownership mainly changes distribution — Leander’s games moved onto RAW Arena after RAW iGaming’s 2022 takeover. Our individual reviews note where an acquisition visibly altered direction.
Who holds the UKGC licence — the studio or the group?
It varies, which is why we verify each case. Most studios here hold their own accounts, but Galaxsys operates under Digitain (MT) Limited’s licence, and Oryx and Stakelogic each run two licensed entities. Every arrangement was checked against the UKGC public register during research.