GameArt on GokkastenOnline and CacaNiqueisOnline: two demo showcases, two fates

Key points

• On 21 November 2024, GameArt announced that its slots could now be played in demo mode on GokkastenOnline in the Netherlands and CacaNiqueisOnline in Brazil. Each review site gave the studio its own provider page.
• Licensed B2B by the Malta Gaming Authority since February 2023, the studio promised access to its portfolio of online slots. As of 28 October 2026, the Dutch page lists 3 of them and the Brazilian page 11.
• Both sites list one company in their footer, Infinileads SL of Barcelona. In July 2021, the affiliate group Raketech had announced a €4.5 million takeover of the company.
• An affiliate site takes no bets. It informs, hosts demos and gets paid when it sends a visitor to a gambling operator.
• Dutch rules in force since 1 July 2023 require online gambling ads to reach an audience at least 95% aged 24 or over. Hence the age gate GokkastenOnline puts up at the door.
• In Brazil, the run of review-site deals continued with JogosDeApostas.com in August 2025, the last announcement of its kind for the country.
• Brazil's Provisional Measure No. 1,394/2026 has outlawed fixed-odds betting and online casino games since 25 September 2026, from operation to advertising.
• Brazil's July 2024 technical rules restricted an operator's demos to players registered with it, whereas CacaNiqueisOnline offered them with no account at all.
• CacaNiqueisOnline's GameArt page still names KTO, which became an operator without authorisation when the measure ended all Brazilian authorisations after thirty days.
• With no stake and no prize, a free demo is not gambling under laws such as Great Britain's Gambling Act 2005. British licensees must still verify a player's age before opening their free-to-play games.

A Dutch player says gokkast. A Brazilian says caça-níquel. Both words name what English speakers call a slot machine. GameArt's announcement of 21 November 2024 made its titles playable as free demos on two sites. GokkastenOnline targets the Netherlands, while CacaNiqueisOnline was built for Brazil. Two years on, the two shopfronts have gone opposite ways. The first still greets its visitors behind an age gate set at 24. The second has frozen its pages since the Brazilian government banned betting and online casinos on 25 September 2026. In between stand a shared publisher in Barcelona, three GameArt games on one side and eleven on the other. There is also a question every player should ask when a free demo lights up the screen: who pays for the shop window, and what is it there to sell?

What did GameArt announce on 21 November 2024?

GameArt posted the news in its Company updates section, in an announcement built on two promises. The first was demos, the second a provider page on two review sites, one Dutch (GokkastenOnline) and one Brazilian (CacaNiqueisOnline). The press release published by GameArt speaks of strategic partnerships. It puts the studio's portfolio in demo mode on both platforms, each with a dedicated space meant to relay its new releases. The first site is pitched as a leading name in Dutch online gaming, the second as a slots and casino specialist tailored to Brazilian players. These portraits are sales copy, and no figure backs them up.

Two people are quoted. Ola Wallin, introduced as VP of Product at GokkastenOnline and CacaNiqueisOnline, is glad to bring the studio's games to the sites' players. Alina Avekse Mathiasen, Head of Product at GameArt, sees a chance to show its titles to new audiences in what she calls “key markets”.

What the release leaves out weighs just as much. Not a single title is named. There is no audience figure, no launch date and nothing on the terms of the deal. A typo also slipped into the text, which spells CacaNiquesOnline where the site is actually called CacaNiqueisOnline, with the i of the Portuguese plural.

Gokkast and caça-níquel: two words for the same machine

In Dutch, gokkast joins gokken (to gamble) and kast (a cabinet). The word keeps the image of a piece of furniture you feed with coins at the back of a café. Brazilian Portuguese prefers the hunt: caça-níquel pairs the verb caçar (to hunt) with níquel, the nickel coin. The Priberam dictionary defines it as a device for games of chance that originally required a coin, and gives its plural as caça-níqueis. English speakers say slot machine. In a British pub it turns into a fruit machine, in Australia a pokie, and anyone with a long memory still calls it a one-armed bandit.

Both sites turned these words straight into exact-match domains. It is an old affiliate recipe: mirror the exact query a player types into a search engine. That means “gokkasten online” on the Dutch side and “caça-níqueis online” on the Brazilian side. Whoever types it wants to spin the reels right now without a deposit, and a demo answers within a second.

Yet around that single object, the two countries have written opposite stories. In the Netherlands, the slot machine kept its place by the bar: a café with a permit from the mayor may install two. In Brazil, it has lived in the shadows since Decree-Law No. 9,215 of 30 April 1946. That decree closed the casinos by extending article 50 of the 1941 Law of Criminal Misdemeanours to the whole country. Running a game of chance in a place open to the public is still a misdemeanour there.

Infinileads: the Barcelona publisher behind both sites

As of 28 October 2026, GokkastenOnline and CacaNiqueisOnline display an identical name in their footers: Infinileads SL. They also share an address on Travessera de Gràcia in Barcelona. The company is no newcomer. The affiliate group Raketech announced its acquisition in July 2021 for €4.5 million in two instalments, plus a performance-based earn-out capped at €4 million. Its flagship assets were then Slotjava.es and Slotjava.it. Its markets stretched from Spain to Portugal and Italy, with Argentina, Mexico and Peru in its sights.

That acquisition announcement hands over a key that GameArt's release keeps to itself. Infinileads' library of free games was described as an engagement driver. It was also billed as an extra revenue stream, through marketing solutions sold to game providers and studios. The 2024 release says nothing about the terms agreed with GameArt. The 2021 model at least shows that a shelf of demos can also be sold to the studios that want a place on it.

One name links the announcements. Ola Wallin was already signing as VP of Product at Slotjava and Nuovicasino in the announcement of 19 October 2024. At the time, GameArt was putting its latest slots in demo mode on those sites aimed at Italy, Spain and Latin America. A month later, the job title and the wording had not moved an inch. Only the countries had changed.

Eight review-site deals in two years

Between 19 October 2024 and 9 October 2026, GameArt published eight announcements involving news sites, review sites or demo portals. Every one of them sits in the studio's own news feed.

All eight follow the same pattern: a provider page, sometimes demos, and no published figures afterwards. Two names keep coming back. Ola Wallin speaks for the Infinileads sites, Anton Strashuk of iGaming.com for the 2026 Italian portals. As of 28 October 2026, the studio's feed has announced no Dutch or Brazilian deal since JogosDeApostas.com. The series has simply switched languages.

Why would a studio hand its demos to affiliate sites?

An affiliate site such as GokkastenOnline takes no bets. It publishes reviews, demos and comparisons, then gets paid when a visitor opens an account with a partner operator. The deal can be a flat fee per player (CPA), a revenue share or a hybrid of the two. Its casino reviews even carry an AD label.

For the studio, the maths comes down to three levers: visibility, language and search rankings. A demo tucked into a Dutch or Brazilian guide speaks to players in their own language, on a query they actually type. Sometimes that happens months before they come across the game at an operator. These visibility deals do not replace the distribution deals signed by GameArt with casinos and aggregators. Only those put a real-money slot in front of a player.

I know this trade from the inside: Kynox also lives on affiliation, paid on revenue share alone. A well-placed demo is worth a poster on a busy metro platform. A provider page that nobody ever updates is that poster two years later, bleached by the sun, that no one looks at anymore.

GokkastenOnline: a Dutch showcase for players aged 24 and over

Since 1 July 2023, online gambling advertising in the Netherlands may only target adults aged 24 and over. The decree of 5 April 2023 only allows online promotion if at least 95% of the people reached are above that age. It also bans such advertising on television, on the radio, in print and in public spaces.

GokkastenOnline enforces the rule at the door. Visitors must confirm that they are 24 or older and accept that they will see gambling advertising. Each casino review then reminds them that bonuses are for over-24s only. The site points to the Cruks self-exclusion register, to Loket Kansspel and to the 0900-1995 helpline. As of 28 October 2026, its counter shows 1,487 gokkasten and 76 casinos.

The market it targets is a heavyweight that is struggling for breath. According to the Ksa's spring 2026 monitoring report, legal online gross gaming revenue reached €602 million in the second half of 2025. That is roughly €100 million a month, 78% of it from casino games played against the house, slots included. Players remain largely loyal to the licensed offer, at 91% or 95% depending on the method. Their money is far less loyal: the share of gross revenue captured by licensed operators slipped from 56% to 53%. Meanwhile, the gambling tax rose from 30.5% to 34.2% in 2025, then to 37.8% on 1 January 2026.

Three GameArt slots out of 1,487 gokkasten

Checked on 28 October 2026, GokkastenOnline's GameArt section lists three slots: Money Farm Megaways, Halloween Farm and X-mas Express. There is no studio profile and no news, despite the 2024 promise. A simple box names two operators where the games can be found: bet365 and Jack's Casino.

The box presents Money Farm Megaways as the newest of the three. Released on 28 March 2023 according to its official game page, it lines up a 6 x 6 grid topped by a horizontal reel and 117,649 ways to win. The studio rates its volatility as very high. Two farms and a Christmas train make a meagre haul for a promised portfolio. Above all, they prove that a shelf fills at the pace of whoever stocks it, not whoever announces it.

Certified for the Netherlands: what the 17 titles of 2023 really cover

In September 2023, GameArt claimed 17 certified games for the Dutch market. The count had reached twelve in June with a batch of nine slots, including Rosh Immortality Cube Megaways™ and Xtreme Hot. Five more titles, from Wild Marmalade to Piggy Bjorn 2, joined them in September.

The studio then went live at Casino777.nl in July 2023, followed by JACKS.NL in March 2024. After that, it courted Dutch affiliates one after another: an interview with CasinoScout.nl in May 2024, another with Casinoslotsspelen.nl in October and the GokkastenOnline deal a month later.

One detail does not add up, though. None of the three games in the Dutch section appears among the fourteen titles named in those two announcements, which do not detail the first three certified games. As in the Lithuanian case, certification is granted title by title and country by country. A demo proves that a game exists, not that a licensed Dutch casino offers it. The studio was careful to make that clear for the six demos opened on the Italian portal Truffa.net in October 2026: they all covered titles certified for Italy.

CacaNiqueisOnline: a Brazilian page frozen by MP No. 1,394/2026

Brazil opened its regulated betting and online gaming market on 1 January 2025 with 66 authorised companies, 14 of them on a definitive basis. Each had paid a fee of R$30 million for five years. The Malta-based studio had been supplying KTO there since December 2023, and the CacaNiqueisOnline deal landed six weeks before the launch.

Almost twenty-one months later, everything stopped. Signed on 25 September 2026, Provisional Measure No. 1,394/2026 bans fixed-odds betting, online games included. Operation, offer, intermediation and advertising are all prohibited. The measure ends existing authorisations within thirty days and provides for the blocking of websites and apps.

The text is not yet law. Congress must convert it, amend it or let it lapse. Justice Luiz Fux, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), has called a public hearing for 3 November 2026. Until then, the ban stands.

Eleven titles and an operator without authorisation

As of 28 October 2026, CacaNiqueisOnline's GameArt page shows eleven slots, from Ultra Cluster Kingdom to Dragon Whisperer. It ends with a closure notice: published before 25 September 2026, the page is now kept for historical and informational purposes only, with no active link to a betting operator. To my mind, that is the most useful line on the whole page.

Yet a box still tells visitors where to find these games: at KTO. It reads as if the ban had not wiped out its authorisation along with those of all its rivals. The first three titles on the list (Ultra Cluster Kingdom, Olympus Majesty and Mega Wild Spin) are also the ones GameArt highlighted for Slotjava and Nuovicasino a month earlier. Same team, same stall, translated into Portuguese.

The studio profile, for its part, has gathered dust. It describes games built in HTML5 and Flash, a technology that Adobe stopped supporting on 31 December 2020. It cites regulators in Malta, the Isle of Man and Italy. It also boasts of working with a “Games Laboratory International”, a garbled version of Gaming Laboratories International. GameArt's own footer shows a link to verify its licence with the Malta Gaming Authority, along with the logos of Italy's ADM agency and of that testing lab.

The no-account demo versus Brazil's rulebook

In Brazil, demo mode is governed by an SPA technical regulation dated 29 July 2024. This Ordinance SPA/MF No. 1,207 requires a demo to reproduce a paid game faithfully and restricts it to users registered with the operator. It also sets a minimum theoretical return to player (RTP) of 85% for every game.

The ordinance targets operators, not review sites. So CacaNiqueisOnline offered something a licensed casino could not: free games in the browser, with no download and no sign-up. For a studio, that was a wide-open door into the country. For the affiliate, it was the perfect bait before the button leading to an operator.

MP No. 1,394/2026 turned the equation upside down, since it hits intermediation and advertising as hard as operation itself. With no casino left to recommend, the stall has nothing to sell, and its demos stay on display like stopped clocks. The studio's other Latin American deals, from Peru to Brazil, help measure what this ban takes away from GameArt in the region.

What can a slot demo teach you?

A slot demo runs the original game with play credits: no stake, no winnings, but the mechanics of the paid version. It teaches you the rules, the paytable and the rhythm of the bonus features, which is no small thing. What it cannot tell you is how to win, or which setting an operator will apply. In the Netherlands, the Ksa recorded a drop in the RTP of online slots in 2025, after the tax rise and new player-protection rules were announced.

Take it for what it is: a practice table with plastic chips. Four habits are worth more than a thousand spins fired off at random:

• Rules: open the game's help screen before the first spin and read the paytable, the number of lines or ways to win and how free spins are triggered.
• Volatility: count the losing spins over a hundred or so rounds. On a very volatile title like Money Farm Megaways, long dry spells are the rule rather than the exception.
• RTP: at an operator, the only figure that counts is the return shown in the rules of its own version, never the one from a demo hosted elsewhere.
• Limits: set a time limit and a play-money budget, then stick to them. The limits worth setting even in demo mode build useful habits, whatever the game.

Is a free demo gambling at all? Under Great Britain's Gambling Act 2005, gaming means playing a game of chance for a prize, and that prize must be money or money's worth. Play credits that can never be cashed out are neither.

In its February 2019 announcement, the UK Gambling Commission put it plainly: free-to-play games are not technically gambling, as no prize is involved. Since 7 May 2019, though, its licensees have had to carry out age verification before opening those free versions to anyone. Real-money play is a different matter, and its legality depends on your country and on the licence the operator holds there.

On Kynox, my casino filters are geolocated: they only ever offer online casinos that are legal where you are connecting from. Anyone who simply wants to understand a slot grid will find a showcase of free slot demos with no account to create. It is the GokkastenOnline and CacaNiqueisOnline idea, minus any operator that is not legal in your country.

FAQs:

What is GokkastenOnline?

A Dutch site devoted to slots, offering free demos, reviews and comparisons of casinos licensed in the Netherlands. Its footer names the Barcelona company Infinileads SL, and access is restricted to visitors aged 24 or over.

How is the name of GameArt's Brazilian partner site spelled?

The official spelling is CacaNiqueisOnline, whose extra i comes from caça-níqueis, the Portuguese plural. GameArt's press release wrote CacaNiquesOnline, but both spellings point to one site.

Why does CacaNiqueisOnline no longer recommend casinos?

Because since 25 September 2026, MP No. 1,394/2026 has banned the intermediation and advertising of fixed-odds betting in Brazil, online casino included. The site keeps its pages as an archive, with no active link to an operator.

Who is behind GokkastenOnline and CacaNiqueisOnline?

Both sites name Infinileads SL, a Barcelona company, in their footers. Raketech, a group specialising in online gambling affiliation, announced its acquisition in July 2021.

Does a demo have the same RTP as the real-money version?

The game does not change, but the setting chosen by an operator can differ: in the Netherlands, the Ksa found that online slots were paying back less in 2025. Only the percentage shown in the rules of the version you play at the operator counts.

Is it legal to play slot demos?

Nothing is staked and nothing can be won. In Great Britain, the Gambling Act 2005 therefore does not count a demo as gaming. Playing for real money is a separate question, answered by the law of your country and by the operator's licence.

What do gokkast and caça-níquel mean?

Both words mean slot machine. The Dutch gokkast combines gambling and a cabinet, while the Portuguese caça-níquel combines hunting and the nickel coin.

Where can I play GameArt demos for free?

Kynox offers free slot demos with no registration, including GameArt titles gathered on the provider's page. None of them asks for a deposit or an account with an operator.

Has GameArt signed other deals with review sites?

Yes. In 2024 came Slotjava and Nuovicasino (October), then BETO Slots (November). In 2025 it was Betting.bet in March and JogosDeApostas.com in August. Two Italian portals followed in May 2026: Truffa.net and Imiglioricasinoonline.net. Since October 2026, Truffa.net has also offered six demos of titles certified for Italy.

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