Microgaming / Games Global: Jackpot Network Explained

Microgaming is the name most players still use for one of the oldest online casino software brands, but in October 2026 the name points to three different businesses. The Isle of Man company that built it is now called Apricot and runs casino platforms. Games Global, a separate company, holds the old game catalogue and the progressive jackpots, including Mega Moolah and WowPot. A third business runs a Microgaming-branded games site aimed mainly at Asia. This page sorts out which company does what. It then explains how the jackpot network is funded and paid, and lists the casinos we reviewed that name either brand.

Most of the detail comes from one document: the prospectus Games Global filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2024, when it planned to list its shares in New York. It withdrew the listing on 13 May 2024, saying it had decided “due to current market conditions” not to go ahead. The figures in it are therefore from 2023 and early 2024, and we date them as we go.

Three Companies, One Famous Name

The quickest way to understand the brand today is to follow each company separately.

Company	What it does now	Where we confirmed it
Apricot Investments Limited	Runs casino and sportsbook platforms. Its UK register entry lists “microgaming” as an inactive trading name	UK Gambling Commission, account 39073
Games Global Operations Limited (Games Global group)	Owns and distributes the old game catalogue and newer studio games, plus the Mega Moolah, WowPot, King Millions and Maple Moolah jackpots	UK Gambling Commission, account 58841; SEC prospectus
Blue Sakura	Operates microgaming.io, a business-to-business games site trading as Microgaming	The site’s own privacy policy and terms

Apricot. The register shows Apricot Investments Limited, based in Douglas, Isle of Man, with a remote casino licence active from 1 November 2014 and a remote gambling software licence from 11 February 2015. Its homepage, in the copy archived in March 2026, describes more than three decades of platform work and a system it says handles over 400 million bets a day. A February 2025 trade report in Yogonet described the change as Microgaming rebranding as Apricot Investments. The UK register supports that: “microgaming” is listed as a trading name of Apricot, now marked inactive.

Games Global. The prospectus says Games Global was incorporated in the Isle of Man on 8 July 2021, as a carve-out of the game development business of Fusion Holdings Limited. It began trading as Games Global on 1 April 2022. That month its board approved buying the game intellectual property from Fusion for €90 million. On 1 May 2022 it bought Quickfire, the business that distributed the games to operators, and Oakwood Services from Apricot. On the same day it bought the Almond studio, which brought in the jackpot-related intellectual property.

Blue Sakura. The current microgaming.io site says it is “built by the original team behind the brand”, offers more than 500 games and is live on more than 1,000 websites. Its privacy policy and terms of use name Blue Sakura as the business behind the site. The site does not mention Games Global or Apricot, and we found no licence details on it. Its catalogue leans towards Asian markets: fishing games, mahjong slots, niu niu and other card games, and a Chinese-language version of the site. It also runs a new slot studio, Red Papaya, launched in November 2025.

We could not confirm from any primary source how Blue Sakura acquired the Microgaming name, or whether it has any ownership link to Apricot or Games Global. We have not guessed.

How the Jackpot Network Works

A progressive jackpot grows because many games, at many casinos, feed one shared prize. The prospectus describes it plainly: in each round of a progressive game, “a player either contributes to or wins a pooled jackpot prize”. Players on the same network chase the same jackpot, whichever game or casino they use. Our guide to how progressive jackpots work explains the maths of that trade-off. Every player who does not win pays a little towards the one player who does.

Games Global’s networks, as the prospectus listed them in May 2024:

Network	Seed (minimum top-prize payout)	Notes from the prospectus
Mega Moolah	€2 million	Paid out €109 million in total from 2021 to 2023, with a win on average every 52 days
WowPot	€2 million	Paid out €78 million in total from 2021 to 2023, with a win on average every 196 days
King Millions	€2 million	No separate payout figure given
Maple Moolah	€1 million	Built for the Ontario market

The company also said that, across Mega Moolah, WowPot and King Millions, a player won a jackpot averaging €8.9 million every 53 days from 2021 to 2023. It called WowPot the home of the largest online jackpot on record. It put the largest payout from its games at €38 million, in December 2023, citing the news site CasinoListings. These are the company’s own selected figures, written to attract investors. We have not been able to check them against an independent record.

The prospectus also said Games Global was building Lotsa Loot, an overlay jackpot meant to work with all of its games and pay smaller prizes more often, with launch targeted for the end of 2024. We have not confirmed whether it launched.

The jackpot games on Games Global’s Products page in October 2026 show how far the networks reach beyond the original game. Mega Moolah now appears alongside Immortal Romance Mega Moolah, Thunderstruck Wild Lightning Mega Moolah, Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah and a Roulette Mega Moolah table. WowPot titles include Book of Atem WowPot, Sisters of Oz WowPot and Queen of Alexandria WOWPOT. King Millions is attached to 9 Masks of Fire, Gold Blitz and a Playboy Fortunes slot. Gold Factory Jackpots carries the Maple Moolah name. The jackpot is a layer added to a game, not a game in itself.

Who Holds the Jackpot Money

This is the part of the prospectus most players never see, and it matters if you ever win.

Games Global does not hold the prize pools itself. Its progressive games are run by Jumbo Jackpots Limited, which the prospectus describes as “a service company and a subsidiary of Apricot”. Under the jackpot agreements, Jumbo Jackpots “oversees the administration, funding and payout of jackpot wins”. It is paid a management fee on every bet placed, which the prospectus says is “in the low single digits” as a percentage and varies by game.

The money moves like this:

1. You place a bet on a jackpot game at your casino. Part of the stake counts as a contribution to the jackpot.
2. That contribution is passed to Games Global, which sends it on to the jackpot administrator.
3. When the jackpot is triggered, Jumbo Jackpots pays the full amount to the casino.
4. The casino pays the winning player.

The prospectus lists this as a business risk. If Jumbo Jackpots ever failed to pay in full and on time, Games Global said it could be liable to the casino for breach of contract. The player is not part of that chain of contracts. Your claim is with your casino, under its terms and its licence. A large jackpot win at a casino with a weak licence or a slow withdrawal record is still a large sum you have to collect from that casino.

Jackpots also brought in real money for Games Global. Progressive administration fees earned it €37.7 million in the nine months to 31 December 2023.

The Games Global Business in Numbers

The prospectus gives a picture of the business that took over the catalogue. All figures are as Games Global reported them in 2024.

Measure	Figure
Studios	40 in-house and partner studios, 16 of them outside the group but making games only for Games Global
Own games	More than 1,300
Operators supplied	More than 350, as of 31 December 2023
Licensed or certified to supply	20 jurisdictions
Players in December 2023	More than 7.3 million unique active players, wagering €6.7 billion
Revenue, year to 31 March 2023	€306.9 million
Largest customer	Apricot, 50.2% of revenue in the nine months to 31 December 2023

That last line explains why the companies are so hard to separate. Apricot owns the games platform that Games Global uses to deliver its games to casinos. It also resells Games Global’s games to the operators on its own platform. In 2023 it was the source of half of Games Global’s revenue.

Games Global described its established markets as Europe and North America. It bought the US business-to-business assets of Digital Gaming Corporation in February 2024 to enter the United States. It said it held “point-of-supply” licences in places including Alderney, Gibraltar and Malta, and local licences in places including Argentina, Ontario and the United Kingdom. Asia is not among the markets it described. The market figures it quoted from H2 Gambling Capital left out Asia and the Middle East altogether.

Licences and RTP

The UK Gambling Commission register lists Games Global Operations Limited, account 58841, at 62 Circular Road, Douglas, Isle of Man. On 20 October 2026 it showed two remote licences, gambling software and game host (casino), both active from 15 February 2022. The Games Global website footer adds that its subsidiary Prima Networks Limited holds Malta Gaming Authority licence MGA/CRP/926/2021, issued on 28 February 2022. We did not check the other jurisdictions’ registers for this page. These are supplier licences. They do not cover an offshore casino that lists a Games Global or Microgaming slot.

The prospectus is clear that one game title can come in several builds. Games Global makes several “game variants” of each title so that operators can choose, among other settings, the return-to-player percentage. Each variant is certified separately. Its central team monitors RTP to check that each game “achieve[s] the correct targeted RTP based upon the design of the game”. In practice two casinos can offer the same slot at different returns. Our guide to slot volatility and RTP explains why that gap matters over a long session. For a jackpot game, the return figure in the help screen should also say how much of it comes from the jackpot itself, which you will almost certainly never win.

The Casinos We Reviewed That List It

The table further down this page is read from the same data files as our reviews. Six casinos name Microgaming among their providers: 96M, BK8, Dafabet, Maxim88, Starbuck88 and W88. One, Spin Casino, names Games Global. Spin Casino is also the only one of the seven with Canadian provincial licences, in Ontario and Alberta, and Ontario is the market Maple Moolah was built for.

For the six Asia-facing casinos, the provider label alone does not tell you which company supplied the games. It could be games from Games Global’s catalogue reaching the casino through a reseller, or the Blue Sakura catalogue now sold as Microgaming. Our Playtech page describes a similar pattern, where well-known studio games reach Asian lobbies through distributors rather than direct contracts. Either way, the casino’s own licence is what covers your account, not the supplier’s UK registration.

Read the bonus terms before you play a jackpot game with bonus money. In our Spin Casino review, the welcome offer carries 35x wagering on the bonus amount, and progressive jackpot games count 0% towards it. Every spin on Mega Moolah there leaves your wagering exactly where it was.

A progressive jackpot is built to be won very rarely, and the growing figure on screen is designed to keep you playing. Treat any stake on a jackpot game as money spent on entertainment, set a deposit and time limit before you start, and stop when you reach it. These games are for adults aged 18 and over. If gambling is no longer something you control, our responsible gambling resources list free, confidential help in each market we cover.