Stakelogic to pay £122,835 after slots games breach minimum spin-speed rules

Stakelogic BV will pay £122,835 ($162,654.42) as a regulatory settlement with the UK Gambling Commission after online slots games it supplied to the British market breached responsible product design standards requiring a minimum 2.5-second gap between game cycles.

The company, which provides games for other operators’ websites and apps, came under investigation after reporting through a Key Event submission that Tiger Temple 88 had operated with 1.97 seconds between spins.

The game was available to British consumers through several licensed operators from May 28 – 30, 2025, and had been corrected by the time Stakelogic informed the Commission.

The Commission’s inquiry, conducted outside a section 116 license review, found that Stakelogic failed to comply with Licence Condition 2.3.1, specifically Remote Technical Standards requirement 14D, between October 31, 2021, and October 30, 2025.

After Commission inquiries, Stakelogic re-tested its full GB games portfolio and identified a further 15 titles that breached the same requirement.

Those games were between 0.001 seconds and 0.675 seconds below the required 2.5-second minimum, with many operating at 42 milliseconds or less below the cycle requirement. The Commission said the failures were caused by inaccurate timing checks because Stakelogic relied on a manual stopwatch to test compliance.

John Pierce, Director of Enforcement and Intelligence at the Commission, said: “With all the technological resources available to an online gambling business, it is unacceptable that Stakelogic was relying on a manual stopwatch to measure the speed of their games.”

“After reporting this error to the Commission, Stakelogic immediately self-suspended the use of the affected games until the error had been rectified. They have subsequently taken significant steps to assure the Commission that they now have robust policies and procedures in place to prevent future breaches from occurring.

“We would urge all operators to take careful note of this case and ensure they have effective testing practices in place to ensure they are meeting all the standards we require.”

The settlement consists of a payment in lieu of a financial penalty, which will be directed to the consolidated fund, agreement to publish a statement of facts and a payment toward the Commission’s investigation costs.

The Commission said Stakelogic accepted that its processes fell short and committed to changes in quality assurance testing, incident management and its regulatory compliance framework.

The regulator cited aggravating factors including Stakelogic’s decision not to suspend Tiger Temple 88 when the issue was first discovered on May 28, 2025, and its failure to immediately review all GB products after identifying the manual timing problem.

Mitigating factors included disabling all GB games once the full scope became clear, cooperating with the investigation, providing information by agreed deadlines, and accepting the failings early.

Minimum online slots speed rules were introduced in 2021 to reduce gameplay intensity and protect consumers from harm after research showed faster game cycles were linked to increased consumer risk.