Reel machines, a roulette, card tables and video poker: breadth wins over depth. Here is what each of those families is worth at this Maltese studio, which claims over a hundred and fifty titles internationally.
GameArt's video poker, between machine and card game
Let us start with the least obvious of the four families.
The principle fits in a sentence: five cards appear, you decide which to keep, the rest are replaced, and the final hand is set against a paytable. No opponent, no bluff, no stake to raise — only the combination obtained counts.
What really marks it out is that your decisions alter the expected result. On a reel game everything is settled at the moment of the spin and the screen merely plays out. Here, holding a pair rather than chasing a flush changes the mathematical value of your hand.
One tip for the first round: the paytable sits permanently on screen, from the single pair to the straight flush. Consulting it before choosing your cards beats discovering it afterwards.
The GameArt reel games and their fixed jackpots
The studio remains a machine builder above all: more than a hundred and thirty video titles on an international scale.
Two of them arrived here as dice-based slots. Mariachi Fiesta Dice sets up a Mexican celebration, brass and saturated colour; African Sunset 2 Dice unrolls a savannah at dusk, in a far calmer register. Two opposite moods for one identical mechanic.
Some of these machines carry a fixed jackpot, though not all — the distinction matters. A fixed jackpot announces an amount known in advance, where a progressive pot swells with every stake until it drops. One tells you exactly what you are aiming at, the other keeps the unknown alive. Neither better nor worse: two ways of distributing the same envelope.
Three GameArt tables: roulette, blackjack and baccarat
This is the second family, and it gets the same care as the reels.
Its roulette shows the full wheel and every expected combination — straight up, split, dozen, red or black — on a layout whose legibility has clearly been worked on. The blackjack keeps to the familiar rule: get as close to 21 as you dare and no further, while the hand opposite works through a fixed routine. As for baccarat, it sets the player's hand against the bank's, the third card following a scale nobody decides.
Other studios cover these same families: the catalogue holds dozens of roulette tables, and blackjack and baccarat have their own category of card games.
One point not to confuse: no dealer takes part at these tables. The software deals, calculates and pays on its own, which matches the regime covered by the Belgian B+ approval.
Twenty titles out of a hundred and fifty: why so few?
The question arises the moment you set the international catalogue beside what lands here.
The answer lies in conversion. A game designed for Italy or Spain cannot be served as it stands in Belgium: the symbols must give way to dice faces, the paytable be recalculated, and the whole pass back before an approved certification body.
Each adaptation carries a cost. A foreign publisher commits to it only for titles from which it expects a real return, which amounts to saying that the selection was made before you got here, on attendance figures observed elsewhere. Twenty sorted games are often worth more than a whole catalogue tipped out unfiltered.
The same reasoning covers what is missing: no placement dice games, no live casino. The studio simply does not produce those formats — for those families you will have to look elsewhere in the full catalogue.
GameArt behind the scenes: Malta, a B2B licence and seven markets
Administrative facts often say more than a presentation page.
The company is established in Malta and describes itself as an independent operator, with no attachment to a large group. It holds a B2B licence issued by the Malta Gaming Authority, referenced MGA/B2B/966/2022 and granted on 6 February 2023 — an authorisation covering the supply of games to operators, never the running of a casino of its own.
Added to that are certifications obtained in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Seven national procedures, seven sets of technical checks independent of one another.
The point is not symbolic: a studio that has already cleared those stages knows the requirements before meeting them — generator documentation, version traceability, proof that the programmed rate matches the one displayed.
A Belgian framework applying to every title
Three conditions hold here, whoever the provider.
An outside laboratory validates the random generator and comes back to check regularly thereafter. The rate shown to the player must be the one actually running in the machine. And nobody gets through under 21: identity is verified beforehand.
Approval B+19763 appears on the public register of the Belgian regulator, which anyone may consult.
Where to start when discovering GameArt
Play credit is enough to launch these titles, and nothing is asked of you beforehand.
With this studio the detour has a particular use: its four families do not play alike at all. Running through a machine, a hand of video poker and then a baccarat table gives you, within minutes, a fairly accurate sense of what suits you — and that reads off no spec sheet.
If you must test only one, take the video poker: it is the format demanding the most learning, and therefore the one where a few practice rounds change the most. The others are picked up easily enough afterwards.
Once the choice is made, creating an account takes a few minutes and winnings then leave with no commission.
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