GCGRA Register Grows to 33 Licensed Gaming Suppliers

The UAE’s gambling regulator now licenses 33 gaming suppliers, up from 20 in May and 23 at the end of August 2026. We read the GCGRA register on 29 October from a UAE connection: 14 suppliers are new since May, while the three operators are unchanged. When we read the register again on 4, 6, 9 and 11 November 2026, the list was the same.

Suppliers make the games, machines and systems that licensed operators use; they cannot take bets from the public. The list therefore shows what is being built for The UAE Lottery, for Play971 and for the casino at Wynn Al Marjan Island.

News · Published 29 October 2026

The GCGRA Register at a Glance

The “Our Licensees” page of the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority is the only official list of who may do business in commercial gaming in the UAE. It covers operators and “third parties providing products or services related to this industry”. We compared the page on 29 October 2026 with the copies saved by the Internet Archive on 2 May and 30 August 2026:

Every change in 2026 has been on the supplier side: no new company has been licensed to offer gambling to the public, and Coin Technology Projects, the company behind Play971, remains the only online licensee.

The register also has limits worth knowing. It gives no licence dates, no expiry dates and no history, and it does not say which products each supplier is approved for. Changes can only be found by comparing copies of the page over time, which is how the dates in this article were established.

Who Joined the Register Since May

Fourteen names on today’s list were not there in May. Three had appeared by 30 August; the other eleven were added after that. The register shows no licence dates, so “first seen” is the first copy in which a name appears. Each name on the register links to a website, which is how we describe what the company does:

Six of the newcomers make equipment for a casino floor and six supply online games or the platforms behind them — the two markets the GCGRA has opened since the lottery. The other two are a sports data company and a payments company.

What the Links Behind the Names Reveal

The register lists legal entities, not brands, and some names say little on their own. The website each entry links to fills the gap:

• Hub 88 Holdings Ltd., an online game aggregator listed in May and August, is no longer named. In its place on the list is Game Mesh FZCO, a company registered in a UAE free zone, which links to the same website, hub88.io. The register does not explain the change.
• VSTechnology Limited links to playtech.com, the website of Playtech, which describes itself as a leading technology company to the gambling industry, with more than 25 years in the sector.
• Edge Solutions Ltd. links to gamingtec.com, a provider of complete online casino and sportsbook platforms for operators.
• Live Online Gaming Services LLC, listed since May, links to live88.io, a live casino software provider, and GG UAE Limited links to Games Global, which supplies online games from more than 50 studio partners.

A link shows which business an entry belongs to; it does not say which products the company is licensed to supply in the UAE, and the register publishes no further detail. The GCGRA’s licence types are broad: one gaming-related vendor licence covers games, equipment and systems alike.

Where the 33 Suppliers Fit

Grouped by what they do, the 33 suppliers line up behind the three operator licences. The table counts each company once, under its main business:

The lottery suppliers — Brightstar, Scientific Games, Pollard Banknote and four others — were all on the list by May, in time for The UAE Lottery, which launched in December 2024. The growth since then has come from casino equipment and online games.

Equipment for Wynn Al Marjan Island

Island 3 AMI FZ-LLC, trading as Wynn Al Marjan, holds the UAE’s only land-based gaming licence, and Wynn Resorts has said the resort in Ras Al Khaimah will open in September 2027. In May the register already listed six makers of slot machines and table equipment: Aristocrat, Novomatic, International Game Technology, LNW Gaming (Light & Wonder), Konami Gaming and TCS John Huxley. Six more have joined since: Euro Games Technology, Zitro and Konami Australia for slot machines and cabinets, RGB for casino products, Cammegh for roulette wheels and Angel for playing cards.

Wynn has not published the size of its gaming floor or its list of machines, and a supplier licence does not mean an order has been placed. What the register does show is that the companies able to sell machines, wheels and cards in the UAE now cover everything a casino floor needs. Our Wynn Al Marjan Island tracker follows the opening, and our Ras Al Khaimah casino guide explains who will be able to play.

Online Games and Sports Data for Play971

Coin Technology Projects holds both the internet gaming and the sports wagering licence, and runs Play971, which launched on 15 December 2025. Its suppliers have to be licensed too, which is why the online side of the list has grown. Three slot studios have joined — Play’n GO, Blueprint and Endorphina — alongside the entry linked to Playtech and two platform companies, Hub88 and Gamingtec. When we visited on 15 October 2026, Play971’s home page featured slots from Endorphina. Two of the best-known names in online casino, Pragmatic Play and Evolution, were not on the register on 29 October.

On the betting side, Genius Sports has joined Sportradar, which was already listed in May; both supply the sports data that sportsbooks depend on. GeoComply, also listed since May, is a location-verification company — the kind of check a UAE online licensee needs, because Play971 may only accept players who are physically in the country and outside Dubai.

A Gaming Payments Company Joins

Advanced Digital Gaming Technology Holdings — ADGT — is the only newcomer whose business is payments. Its website describes it as UAE-owned gaming payments technology and says it “holds the sole licence for gaming payments and cash access in the UAE”, with technology for payments, identity and compliance that is built and housed in the country. The GCGRA register lists it as a gaming-related vendor and does not describe licences in more detail. Cash access — how players get money onto a gaming floor or into an account — matters for both Play971 and the future casino. Under Cabinet Resolution No. 134 of 2025, commercial gaming operators must apply anti-money-laundering checks to transactions of AED 11,000 or more, single or linked.

What It Means for Players in the UAE

A supplier licence is not a licence to offer gambling. Several studios on the register also supply offshore casinos that UAE residents find online — in our reviews, Play’n GO games appear at Emirbet and 10bet, and Playtech live tables at Nomini and Spinanga, while YYY Casino hides Play’n GO’s slots from the lobby it serves to the UAE, and OscarSpin dropped them from its UAE lobby in November — and a game from a licensed studio does not make the casino that offers it licensed in the UAE. Gambling is lawful only with an operator licensed by the GCGRA; playing with an unlicensed operator is an offence under Article 461 of the Crimes and Penalties Law, punishable by up to two years in prison or a fine of up to AED 50,000.

For online casino games and sports betting, that still means one licensed choice: Play971, for players aged 21 or over who are physically in the UAE, outside Dubai. Our overview of the UAE’s gambling laws explains the rules, and if gambling stops being fun, our responsible gambling page lists free, confidential support.

How to Check the Register Yourself

1. Open the GCGRA website (gcgra.gov.ae) and go to Licensing, then Our Licensees.
2. Look for the company, not the brand. Play971 appears as Coin Technology Projects LLC, the company that runs it; a brand that cannot be traced to a company on the register is not licensed.
3. Check the licence type. Only the lottery, land-based, internet gaming and sports wagering licensees may offer gambling to the public; vendors may not.
4. Report unlicensed operators through the complaints form on the GCGRA website.

Our guide to the GCGRA explains each licence type and walks through a full licence check, and our TrueWin article shows how the register applies to a brand it does not name.

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