The United Kingdom’s Gambling Commission (UKGC) has ordered Stakelogic to pay GBP 122,835 (about $163,000) after determining that the games developer violated regulations by offering online slot games that operated at excessively high speeds.
Stakelogic’s Games Ran Too Fast, UKGC Says
The penalty stems from the speed of Stakelogic’s Tiger Temple 88 slot game, which was found to have a spin interval of just 1.97 seconds. Under the Gambling Commission’s responsible product design rules, online slot games are required to have a minimum spin interval of 2.5 seconds. Investigators found that Tiger Temple and several other games fell short of this requirement, operating between 0.001 and 0.675 seconds below the mandated threshold, with many running at least 0.042 seconds faster than permitted.
According to the UKGC, Tiger Temple 88 breached the rules between May 28 and May 30 of last year. The other affected titles were found to have been non-compliant during various periods between October 31, 2021, and October 30, 2025.
John Pierce, director of enforcement and intelligence for the Commission, said that after identifying and reporting the issue to the Commission, Stakelogic immediately suspended the affected games until the problem was resolved. The company has since implemented extensive measures to demonstrate to the UKGC that it has strong policies and procedures in place to help prevent similar breaches in the future, he explained.
Why Did The Error Occur?
According to the UKGC, the breaches were caused by inaccurate time measurements. The problem was that Stakelogic relied on a manual stopwatch to assess compliance with remote technical standards. As a result, the Gambling Commission concluded that the developer’s internal processes, controls, and procedures did not meet licence requirements, particularly in relation to quality assurance testing and incident management practices.
Stakelogic accepted the regulator’s conclusions and pledged to overhaul both its testing methodology and broader compliance framework. The company also disabled all affected games in the UK as soon as it became aware of the issue. The regulator determined that a penalty against Stakelogic was necessary, and the developer agreed to pay the fine as an alternative to a formal financial sanction.
While the UKGC is always trying to better its compliance mechanisms to prevent errors such as this one, it doesn’t seem that they always work as intended. For example, the regulator has been increasingly relying on AI systems to prevent money laundering schemes. However, earlier this month, Pierce complained that these new AI tools do not deliver the expected results.