PG Soft licence: what the UK, Malta and Gibraltar registers show
PG Soft’s website says it holds licences from the UK (licence 45515), Malta (C76195) and Gibraltar. The UK Gambling Commission’s register lists account 45515 not under PG Soft but under Adoptit Publishing Limited, an Isle of Man company, and records both of its licences as surrendered on 7 July 2025. We found no PG Soft entity on Gibraltar’s list of B2B licence holders, and could not match C76195 to a Malta Gaming Authority licence. The registers do not show that PG Soft is unlicensed everywhere; they show that the licences it publishes could not be confirmed as current.
Confirmed by a register
- UK account 45515 belongs to Adoptit Publishing Limited, Isle of Man
- Its two UK licences were surrendered on 7 July 2025
- No regulatory action is recorded against it
- Gibraltar’s B2B list (25 Sep 2025) has no PG Soft entry
PG Soft says
- It holds licences from the UK (45515), Malta (C76195) and Gibraltar
- Its games are certified by BMM Testlabs and Gaming Associates
- It does not offer its games in the US, Australia and several other countries
Not established
- Why the UK licences were surrendered
- Whether PG Soft holds a current licence under another company name
- What licence, if any, C76195 refers to
- Whether PG Soft still supplies Great Britain
PG Soft — Pocket Games Soft — is a mobile-first slot studio headquartered in Valletta, whose Fortune Tiger became a phenomenon in Brazil.7,10 Its licence claims matter accordingly. This report sets the licences PG Soft publishes beside what the regulators’ own registers record, and separates what is confirmed from what is not. We read every register on 4 Oct 2026.
01What PG Soft says
PG Soft’s licensing statement, on its own website and undated, reads:
“PG SOFT™ holds operating licenses from the UK (License: 45515), Malta (License: C76195), and Gibraltar regulatory authorities, strictly adhering to European regulatory standards.”
PG Soft, licensing and certification statement1
The same statement says its games are dual-certified by BMM Testlabs and Gaming Associates, covering the random number generator, game mathematics and rules.1 Its company page says it was founded in 2015, is headquartered in Valletta and released its first games in the fourth quarter of 2017.7 We found no public statement from PG Soft about the UK register entries described below.
02What the UK register shows
The UK Gambling Commission publishes every licence it has granted, by account number. Account 45515 is not listed under PG Soft. It belongs to:
UK Gambling Commission register, account 45515, read 4 Oct 2026
| Licence | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gambling Software (Remote) | Surrendered | 23 Aug 2016 | 7 Jul 2025 |
| Game Host (Casino) (Remote) | Surrendered | 4 Sep 2019 | 7 Jul 2025 |
The licensee is Adoptit Publishing Limited, Myholme, Somerset Square, Douglas, Isle of Man. The register records no trading names, no domain names and no regulatory actions against it.2 We also searched the Commission’s downloadable register of businesses, trading names and domains for PG Soft and Pocket Games Soft and found no entry under either name.4
How Adoptit connects to PG Soft
The link is documentary. A game audit report hosted in the resources section of PG Soft’s own website — Gaming Associates Europe’s report on Emperor’s Favour, dated 18 March 2019 — is addressed to Adoptit Publishing Limited, carries a “Pocket Games Soft” watermark, and tests the game against the UK Gambling Commission’s technical standards.3 Our analysis Taken with PG Soft citing 45515 as its own licence, the record indicates that PG Soft’s UK-facing licences were held through Adoptit. Neither company, as far as we found, has published how the two are related.
What “surrendered” means
On the Commission’s register, a surrendered licence is one the licensee gave up, as distinct from one the regulator revoked. With no regulatory action recorded, the register gives no sign that the surrender followed enforcement. It gives no reason at all.2
03Malta: what C76195 is
PG Soft cites “License: C76195” for Malta. Malta Gaming Authority licences are numbered in a different form — Endorphina’s, for comparison, is MGA/B2B/404/2017 — while Maltese companies are registered under numbers that begin with C: Endorphina Limited is company C77672.12 Our analysis C76195 has the form of a company registration number, which identifies a company, not a gaming licence. We could not confirm an MGA licence for PG Soft, Pocket Games Soft or Adoptit; anyone can search the authority’s licensee register by name.6
04Gibraltar
PG Soft names Gibraltar as a licensing authority but gives no licence number. Gibraltar’s Gambling Division publishes its remote gambling licence holders; the business-to-business list, updated 25 September 2025, has 33 entries and none for PG Soft, Pocket Games Soft or Adoptit Publishing.5 The list is updated periodically, so a licence granted after that date would not appear on it.
05Timeline
PG Soft founded, according to the company; headquartered in Valletta.7
Adoptit Publishing Limited’s UK remote gambling software licence begins, account 45515.2
PG Soft debuts at ICE in London and releases its first games in the fourth quarter.7
Gaming Associates issues its audit of Emperor’s Favour to Adoptit Publishing Limited, against the UK technical standards.3
Adoptit’s UK remote game host (casino) licence begins.2
PG Soft launches a tool that lets players check a game is genuine, amid copied versions of its games circulating outside regulated markets.8
PG Soft games go live in Brazil’s newly regulated market through SkillOnNet’s brands, trade press reports.9
Both of Adoptit’s UK licences are recorded as surrendered.2
Gibraltar updates its B2B licence holder list; no PG Soft entity is on it.5
PG Soft’s licensing statement still cites UK licence 45515.1
06What is still unclear
- Why the licences were surrendered. The register gives no reason, and we found no statement from PG Soft or Adoptit, and no trade press report of the surrender.
- Whether PG Soft holds a current UK licence through another company. We found none under the PG Soft or Pocket Games Soft names; a licence held by a company with an unrelated name would not show in a name search.
- What C76195 is. It may be the registration number of a PG Soft company in Malta. We could not confirm which company, or any MGA licence.
- Whether PG Soft still supplies Great Britain. Its restricted-territories list does not include the UK.7
- When the licensing statement was written. The page carries no date, so it may simply predate July 2025.
07Why it matters
Under section 41 of the Gambling Act 2005, making or supplying gambling software in the course of a business without a Commission operating licence that authorises it is an offence, subject to the Act’s territorial rules.11 A supplier’s licence status therefore decides which British casinos may carry its games — and a licence number on a supplier’s website is only as good as the register entry behind it.
A licence number is a claim. The register is the record.
For players outside Britain the question is different but related. PG Soft’s popularity has brought copied versions of its games, which is why it built a tool for checking that a game is genuine.8 Where copies circulate, a verifiable licence trail is one of the few ways to tell the official product from an imitation. Our analysis That makes an out-of-date licence statement more than a housekeeping matter: it is the document a player or an operator would use to check.
For casinos and affiliates the lesson is procedural. The supplier’s own page is where a licence claim starts, not where it is confirmed. Velven applies the same rule to every casino it scores — see how we score — and to every studio in our provider profiles, including PG Soft’s.
08How to check a provider’s licence
- Take the number from the provider’s site. Note the exact company name it is given under, not just the brand.
- Look it up on the regulator’s own register. The UK Gambling Commission’s register searches by account number and name;4 the Malta Gaming Authority’s by licensee name;6 Gibraltar publishes its licence holders as a list.5
- Check the licensee name matches. A licence held by a different company is not necessarily wrong — groups license through subsidiaries — but the relationship should be stated somewhere you can read it.
- Check the status and the dates. “Surrendered”, “revoked” or an end date in the past means the licence is not current.
- Check the casino too. A game is only as regulated as the casino you play it at. Our casino index shows each casino’s licence and links to it.
09Questions
Is PG Soft licensed?
PG Soft says it holds licences from the UK (45515), Malta (C76195) and Gibraltar. On 4 October 2026 the UK Gambling Commission’s register lists account 45515 under Adoptit Publishing Limited, with both its licences surrendered on 7 July 2025. We found no PG Soft entity on Gibraltar’s B2B licence list and could not confirm a Malta Gaming Authority licence. That means the licences PG Soft cites could not be confirmed as current from public registers; it does not establish that PG Soft holds no licence anywhere.
What is PG Soft licence 45515?
45515 is a UK Gambling Commission account number. The register lists it under Adoptit Publishing Limited of Douglas, Isle of Man, which held a remote gambling software licence from 23 August 2016 and a remote game host (casino) licence from 4 September 2019. Both are recorded as surrendered on 7 July 2025, with no regulatory action on record.
Who is Adoptit Publishing Limited?
An Isle of Man company, according to the UK register. An audit report hosted on PG Soft’s own website — Gaming Associates’ 2019 report on the game Emperor’s Favour — is addressed to Adoptit Publishing Limited and carries the Pocket Games Soft name, which ties the two. The register does not list PG Soft as a trading name of Adoptit, and we found no public explanation of the relationship.
Does PG Soft have a Malta Gaming Authority licence?
We could not confirm one. The Malta reference PG Soft gives, C76195, has the form of a Maltese company registration number; Malta Gaming Authority licence numbers take the form MGA/B2B/… . A company number identifies a company, not a gaming licence.
Is PG Soft licensed in Gibraltar?
PG Soft says it is, but gives no Gibraltar licence number. Gibraltar’s published list of B2B remote gambling licence holders, updated 25 September 2025, contains no entry for PG Soft, Pocket Games Soft or Adoptit Publishing.
Can players in Great Britain play PG Soft games?
We cannot say whether PG Soft currently supplies any British-licensed casino. In Great Britain, a business that supplies gambling software for use by British-licensed operators needs a software licence from the Gambling Commission, and the licence PG Soft cites was surrendered in July 2025. A British player can check whether a casino holds a Commission licence on the public register.
Does this mean PG Soft games are unfair or unsafe?
No such conclusion follows from the registers. PG Soft says its games are certified by BMM Testlabs and Gaming Associates, and an independent audit of one of its games from 2019 is public. The registers speak to who is licensed where, not to how a game pays. What it does mean is that PG Soft’s published licence claims should not be taken at face value without checking the register.
If PG Soft, Adoptit Publishing or a regulator clarifies any of this, we will update this report and log the change on our corrections page.
Written by Velven editorial from public registers and the sources below, read 4 Oct 2026. Every claim is numbered to its source; where we draw a conclusion of our own, it is marked as our analysis.