Quickspin

Founding and Ownership

Quickspin states that it was born in 2011, in Stockholm, started by three developers who wanted to build the games they wanted to play themselves. Playtech acquired the studio in 2016 — Quickspin's own About page records the acquisition and states in the present tense that it is part of the Playtech group. The corporate entity is Quickspin AB.

What It Makes

Quickspin describes itself as a Swedish game development studio making slots and gamification tools for the real-money online gambling market, and states that it keeps adding games, features, graphics and audio to that portfolio. Its site lists titles individually rather than publishing a total.

Where It Is Licensed

Quickspin AB states that it holds a critical gaming supply corporate licence, number MGA/CRP/137/2007, issued on 6 December 2018 by the Malta Gaming Authority, and that it is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission under account number 38516. Both are Playtech's: the Gambling Commission's register records account 38516 against Playtech plc, and the Maltese number is the one Playtech plc also publishes as its own. Quickspin therefore operates under its parent's authorisations rather than licences in its own name.

Games and Mechanics

Quickspin’s own portfolio page lists its catalogue title by title under the line "WE CREATE THE GAMES YOUR PLAYERS LOVE", and long-running series account for much of it: Big Bad Wolf, Sakura Fortune, Sticky Bandits, Cash Truck, Golden Glyph and Eastern Emeralds each appear in several versions, among them Big Bad Wolf Megaways, Eastern Emeralds Megaways, Sticky Bandits Unchained, Golden Glyph 3, Cash Truck 3 Turbo and Sakura Fortune Epic Bloom. The list also carries Epic Fish: Net of Fortune and Scepter of Anubis. The studio’s stated approach is to vary the mechanic rather than the theme: it says it spends "a lot of time on different types of game mechanics, to target different kinds of players".

Since 2023 there has also been a live casino line, and it runs on the parent’s technology rather than Quickspin’s own. The studio describes Quickspin Live as "our newest product vertical to compliment our slots offering, catering to the live casino space" and states that "Our live games are made available through the Playtech Live platform". The first of them was Big Bad Wolf Live: Quickspin writes that "Quickspin Live’s first game is Big Bad Wolf Live, released in the summer of 2023", with a communal bonus round players can enter by paying 40 times their bet.