Pragmatic Play now ships around nine online slots every month, with a top-tier or mega title landing each quarter. For a company that started in 2015 making mobile slots and nothing else, that output is the clearest measure of how far it has come.
2026 has been its busiest year yet. An Egyptian-themed mega release in June, a World Cup-timed Big Bass game, a Korean-inspired live baccarat title that had no direct precedent, and a live casino arm still adding tables at pace.
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What has Pragmatic Play released this year?
Three quarterly headliners so far. Jelly Express opened in March with wild multipliers and six bonus game options, Gates of Olympus Roulette landed in April, and Fury of Anubis arrived on 25 June.
Fury of Anubis takes the realm of the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife as its setting. Gameplay is high volatility and feature-rich, and it went out across major regulated markets via the single-API system.
Underneath those sit the monthly releases, split between originals and franchise extensions. Big Bass Football Bonanza arrived on 25 May with a World Cup theme. Seotda Baccarat came a week earlier on 18 May, working a Korean-inspired Seotda mechanic into traditional baccarat. Before them: Mr Null’s Wicked Wares on 5 May, Sweet Bonanza 2500 on 30 April, Big Bass Trophy Catch on 16 April.
Which games do operators lean on hardest?
Thousands of titles sit in the library, yet play clusters around three names: Big Bass, Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus.
At the end of 2025, Gates of Olympus Super Scatter led the global performance charts. Fortune of Olympus, which came out that December, has remained close to the top across 2026. The release rhythm means operators see the library refreshed constantly without any further technical work at their end.
How did those franchises come about?
Out of groundwork laid in the opening years: building for mobile first, holding a release schedule operators could plan around, and identifying which concepts had headroom.
The results showed by 2017 and 2018. Big Bass took off, and Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus arrived soon after to join the most-played slots available anywhere.
How large is the live casino side of the business?
Over ten times its starting size. Live opened in 2019 with roughly 50 tables and now covers more than 500, with plans to grow that to over 1,000 across the next two years and studios rising from five locations to nine.
That was less a new product line than a second business, and it remains the most consequential call the company has made since founding.
Why do the slot brands matter in live formats?
Game shows with high production values are no longer unusual in this sector. What stays rare is a supplier holding slot brands players already recognise, which is what makes the format land.
Sweet Bonanza was the first slot title to make the jump across to live casino with fan-favourite game show Sweet Bonanza CandyLand, and Gates of Olympus followed with the launch of Gates of Olympus in 2026. Pragmatic Play has the library to keep going, and it has turned into a real point of separation.
How does the content get to operators?
One integration gives an operator the whole catalogue, which now reaches over 30 regulated markets, more than 30 languages and upwards of 170 currencies. Partners run from betting and gaming giants such as Flutter Entertainment and Entain through to regional brands and aggregators.
Licences and regulatory approval come from bodies including the Gambling Commission of Great Britain, the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner and the Malta Gaming Authority.
That position traces back to a decision taken at the outset. The company set out to make well-built mobile slots and sell them into licensed territories, which reads as unremarkable now but was not in 2015, when a large share of new suppliers were prioritising markets with lighter oversight where money arrived sooner. Pragmatic Play secured a licence with the UK first, then followed by Malta, Italy, Sweden and Romania, with Ontario and Brazil later.
Who is behind the company?
The business is headquartered in Gibraltar and privately owned by investors led by Veridian (Gibraltar) Limited.
Julian Jarvis co-founded it and has held the chief executive role throughout. His earlier career covered the internet sector through the AOL Time Warner period, and in 2004 he was brought in by the founders of the business that later became PartyGaming. The regulated-markets thinking he arrived with has run through the company ever since.
Operational support sits with ARRISE, a separate international services group serving the iGaming industry, whose remit runs across product development, IT support, marketing, events and commercial.
What should the industry watch next?
Autumn brings the next major release, most likely either a franchise extension or an original concept.
The larger question sits with live. Two major IPs have crossed over already. A third would settle the format as a hallmark approach rather than a pair of successful one-offs. Eleven years in, the company reads less like a supplier settling into its size and more like one still finding the edges of it.