5 Major iGaming Developers You Need on Your Radar
iGaming is a term commonly used to describe the global multi-billion-dollar online gambling industry, which includes all fully licensed and regulated websites that are legally permitted to offer one or more betting services.
I’ve joined countless of these sites over the years and found that most offer sports betting services and computer-generated/live dealer slots, roulette, poker, blackjack, craps, scratchcards, baccarat, and various other bingo & lottery-style content.
The companies that supply digital entertainment activities like this to these sites are known as software providers or content development studios, and after a little bit of digging, I discovered there are currently over 130 of these companies that are more prevalent than any others.
Between them, these companies have produced a staggering 9,000+ individual titles and most specialise in developing feature-rich online fruit machines. Some specialise in live dealer content, and others produce a range of classic favourites, like roulette and blackjack or all of the above.
With that said, let’s now dive in and take a closer look at five major development studios and software providers you need on your radar, all of which have developed content with low, medium, and high volatility win rate variations and high or above-average RTP% payout rates.
Which providers make the best live dealer content in 2024?
It all depends on what you’re looking for. For example, I love playing the highly sophisticated live dealer game show content on today’s safest and most secure sites. I’ve been around long enough to know that Evolution Gaming makes the best live dealer content.
This company has won multiple industry awards and is widely regarded by industry leaders, operators, and people like me who join these sites as the most notable provider of live dealer content.
Other top providers specialising in this particular field are Pragmatic Play Live, Playtech, Authentic Gaming, OnAir Entertainment, and Ezugi. That’s not forgetting providers include BetGames TV, Fresh Deck Studios, Skywind Group, Swintt, and Winfinity, to name just a few.
Which five companies make the best fruitys?
The most popular games played on today’s most secure websites are online fruit machines. As mentioned, over 100 companies make them, but only a handful of providers make fruitys that truly stand out from the crowd and resonate with people like me more than any other fruitys.
The top five software providers/development studios that every online fruit machine enthusiast should have on their radar in 2024 are the following multi-award-winning companies:
- GamesGlobal
- Blueprint
- Pragmatic Play
- Playtech
- NetEnt
Some of these major software providers have also partnered with much smaller studios in recent years to bring you even more diverse content to choose from. You can learn more about them right here on this page: online-slot.co.uk/online-slots/providers/.
I also use this same website to read the latest reviews on where I can play online fruitys from one or more of these top-tier providers.
GamesGlobal, which completed the acquisition of Microgaming (the industry’s oldest and most successful provider of award-winning content), has since partnered with several other market-leading studios.
In other words, when you join a site with software from this company, their partner studios that are always on my radar and should be on yours, too, are Just for the Win, Gameburger, Spin Play, Gold Coin, Fortune Factory, All41, Stormcraft, Triple Edge, Slingshot, Switch, Area Vegas, Foxium, Crazy Tooth, Aurum Signature, Alchemy, and Snowborn, to name just a few.
Similarly, Pragmatic Play also brings you content from (WSG Wild Streak), and Reel Kingdom and Blueprint have content from Reel Time.
Honourable mentions
Yggdrasil and its partner studios, such as Jelly, Bang Bang, Reflex, ReelPlay, Peter & Sons, AceRun, Bulletproof, Hungry Bear, and 4ThePlayer, to name a few, are also known to develop some of the industry’s most popular online fruit machines.
The other market-leading software providers that I also mustn’t forget to mention are Red Tiger, Novomatic/Greentube, Stakelogic, Skywind Group, Push Gaming, Thunderkick, ELK Studios, Playson, Inspired, Iron Dog Studios, Wazdan, and IGT.
There’s also Light & Wonder, Hacksaw, Lightning Box, Fantasma, 1X2, and Pariplay.
If that’s not enough to keep you going, then you also need to check out the impressive catalogues of online fruit machines from some of my other favourite companies, such as Slot Mill, Leander, High 5, Realistic, ReelPlay, Green Jade, Bally Wulff, and iSoftBet, which some of you may not be so familiar with.
Final thoughts
To play fruitys or live dealer titles from any of these providers, you must be at least 18 (unless you live in the US, where it’s 21, or certain Canadian provinces, where it’s 19). I strongly advise anyone who is going to play online fruitys from these companies to gamble responsibly at all times.
I have found that the easiest way to do this on my favourite sites is to go to the ‘safer gambling’ section, which usually has a range of useful controls that help me remain within my budget.
I would suggest setting a deposit limit, either daily, weekly or monthly, because it works best for me. However, you might find that a session time reminder works best for you. Other tools that are designed to protect us and ensure we keep things safe and fun are spending caps and win/loss limits.
All of the software providers mentioned above have developed the world’s best online fruitys with the highest RTP% (return to player) payout rates, the best in-play features, the most popular themes, and the biggest jackpots.
Their feature-packed fruitys are fun to play, designed to appeal to most players, and work well/run smoothly in any web browser using any decent Wi-Fi/internet-connected PC or mobile device.
They have wide betting ranges and are often accessible in the free-play mode, too, not just the real money mode.
