On 13 September 2023, GameArt launched gameart.net/spain, a page dedicated to SBC Summit Barcelona 2023 where operators could book a meeting with its team and download its brochure.
The page presented booth CG86, open from 19 to 21 September 2023, and the “Spin & Win” tournament, whose top prize was a nature break for two in Slovenia.
Checked on 25 October 2026, it lists 32 slot games under the heading “Games certified for Spain”.
GameArt's slots first passed Spanish certification in March 2019, after testing by GLI. The studio had 16 games certified for Spain by September 2022 and 25 by June 2023.
In Spain, operators must use gaming systems approved on the basis of reports from laboratories designated by the DGOJ. New games make up the vast majority of change requests.
Orden HAP/1370/2014 requires time and spending limits before every session, a maximum of 100 autoplay rounds and a minimum of 3 seconds per round.
In 2023, Nevena Aleksieva, then Head of Sales, described Spain as one of the studio's “key target markets”.
Spain's online gambling market generated €1,236.75 million in gross gaming revenue in 2023. Slots accounted for 61.55% of online casino revenue, rising to 69.11% in 2025.
After SBC Summit left for Lisbon, GameArt returned to the city for the first ICE in Barcelona, in January 2025.
The studio's other industry events, from London to Rome, are gathered in GameArt's trade show calendar on Kynox.
A Spanish certification only covers the Spanish regulated market: elsewhere, availability depends on local licensing rules.
GameArt in Spain: what its SBC Summit Barcelona 2023 page revealed
On 13 September 2023, six days before SBC Summit Barcelona opened its doors, GameArt laid one more card on the table: a web page built for the show. Nothing flashy, on the face of it. At booth CG86 in the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc, the studio was preparing a Money Farm Megaways™ tournament with BlueOcean Gaming. Online, it opened a counter where visitors could book a meeting and grab its brochure before the event.
The detail that matters is hidden in the address. The studio's official announcement pointed to gameart.net/spain. Not a “Barcelona” page, not an “SBC” page, but a “Spain” page. Three years later, it is still online. Below the booth programme runs a list whose title leaves no room for bluffing: “Games certified for Spain”. When I checked it on 25 October 2026, it lined up 32 slot games.
This page remains the best entry point for understanding the game GameArt has been playing in Spain since 2019. A certification earned from a recognised laboratory. A collection that grows step by step. Spanish operators signing one after another. A sales pitch that changes tone from one trade show to the next. The whole deal is worth replaying, card by card.
What did GameArt's Spain page offer?
A trade show page does not speak to players. GameArt's Spain page is no exception. It targets operators, the online casinos and platforms that buy games to fill out their lobbies. Its only goal is to turn a handshake in a crowded aisle into a meeting in the diary, and it ticks every box of the genre.
Meetings: a “Book a meeting with us!” form and a button that opens an email already titled “Meeting request for Gameart's Team at SBC Barcelona 2023”.
Documentation: the provider's brochure, dated September 2023, to download “before the show”, plus a company profile prepared for the event.
Tournament: “Spin & Win”, held at the booth on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 September from 10:00 to 17:00, with a nature break for two in Slovenia as the top prize.
Collection: the list of titles certified for the Spanish market.
GameArt claims more than 130 slot games and more than 100 clients on the page. It also displays its Maltese B2B licence, MGA/B2B/966/2022, issued on 6 February 2023. The press release even promised a hunt for hidden prizes for visitors to the booth. None of this was improvised: the provider had already opened a dedicated page for ICE London 2023, eight months earlier.
I'll admit a soft spot for these pages that nobody ever unplugs. They work like a flash photograph: the booth, the tournament hours, the autumn 2023 brochure, everything stays frozen. Or almost, since ISO certificates from 2025 have been added in the meantime. The sign keeps blinking long after the show has closed, and that is exactly what makes it so valuable for anyone tracking GameArt.
What does “certified for Spain” mean?
In Spain, the regulator works the door. The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego, the DGOJ, grants licences to operators. They need a general licence for each broad category of games, then a singular licence for each game type. Slots are one of them, known in Spanish law as “máquinas de azar”. The provider, for its part, sells nothing directly to players. Its games reach operators through a quieter door: homologation, Spain's technical approval process.
Operators have no choice in the matter. The DGOJ homologation procedure spells it out: they must use gaming equipment and systems that are “debidamente homologados”, duly approved. This approval relies on certification reports written by laboratories and auditors that the DGOJ has designated in advance. It lasts ten years, but it never sleeps. Every substantial change needs prior authorisation. Operators also file quarterly reports, and an audit comes round every two years. The regulator adds that new games make up “la gran mayoría” of the requests it handles: 851 in 2022, of which 823 were authorised and 26 refused.
GameArt cleared that hurdle in March 2019. European Gaming reported at the time that its slots had obtained the certification required by the DGOJ, after testing by the GLI laboratory. Maja Lozej, who then ran the company, saw it as proof that GameArt was “creating compliant games”. Without that trip to the lab, its reels would have stayed outside the door of Spain's licensed online casinos.
Online slot rules in Spain
Once certified, a slot is not done with the law. Orden HAP/1370/2014, which has governed online slots since 31 October 2014, sets safeguards that Spanish players meet in every session.
Limits: before each session, players set the maximum duration and the maximum amount they are willing to spend. There are no default values, and nothing carries over from the previous session.
Alerts: players choose how often they receive time and spending warnings, with a minimum interval of fifteen minutes.
Autoplay: no more than 100 rounds in automatic mode.
Pace: each round lasts at least 3 seconds.
Transparency: the operator displays the expected return calculated over one year and the actual payout percentage for each of the previous six months.
Jackpots: progressive only, never guaranteed.
Three seconds is the time it takes to blink over the reels. In Spain, it is written into law. For a provider, the lesson is simple. Its games must fit a market where frenzy runs on a stopwatch and where players set their ceiling before the very first bet.
From 2019 to 2026: GameArt's Spanish portfolio step by step
The provider's Spanish collection did not fill up with a wave of a magic wand. It grew with each certification and each deal, and every step has a date.
Date
Milestone
Key figure
March 2019
Certification for Spain after testing by the GLI laboratory
Access to the market regulated by the DGOJ
August 2022
Launch with PASTÓN
16 slots, including El Toreo, Tiger Heart and Money Farm 2
September 2022
First SBC Summit Barcelona, booth M3
16 games certified for Spain
March 2023
CasinoBarcelona.es expands its range
18 slots, including Rosh Immortality Cube Megaways™
June 2023
Six more certifications
25 games certified for Spain
September 2023
SBC Summit Barcelona, booth CG86
gameart.net/spain page live on 13 September
May 2026
Deal with Solcasino
Selection of GameArt slots
October 2026
Check of the Spain page
32 titles under “Games certified for Spain”
Sixteen, twenty-five, thirty-two. This progression is nothing like a jackpot landing all at once. It looks more like a stack of chips built up patiently. In its March 2023 announcement, GameArt pointed out that CasinoBarcelona.es, an operator from the Peralada group, has held DGOJ licences since 2012. Choosing long-established partners is one way to sit down at a table with a solid bank.
Which GameArt slots were certified for Spain?
Reading the 2026 list is a bit like seeing a player's cards at the showdown. You can guess the strategy from the way the hand was built.
Folklore leads the way. El Toreo and Mariachi Fiesta play the Hispanic card without hesitation, the second one more Mexican than Andalusian. El Toreo was already among the top titles named at the PASTÓN launch in August 2022. Cliché or commercial instinct? Probably both, and I'm not sure we have to choose.
Then come the fruit and seven grids: 20 Hot Fruit Delight, Dynamite Fruits, 40 Super Heated Sevens and Awesome 7s. Spaniards call these machines “tragaperras”, literally “coin-swallowers”, a word built on “perras”, the small coins of old. In many neighbourhood bars, the machine still blinks near the counter. It is the legacy of a gaming culture that long predates the internet. To my mind, it is no surprise to find these fruits among the slots certified for Spain: they speak a language local players know by heart.
The third family is the Megaways™ mechanic, with Rosh Immortality Cube Megaways™, Pirate's Pearl Megaways™ and Money Farm Megaways™, the star of booth CG86. Antiquity also holds a place of honour, with Nefertiti's Nile, Cleopatra, Ramses Treasure and Caligula. For the rest, the studio founded in 2013 has drawn on its whole repertoire. It runs from farms to savannahs, from the Norse myths of Piggy Bjorn: Muspelheim's Treasure to the Arabian Nights world of Aladdin's Quest.
In August 2023, GameArt listed Pirate's Pearl Megaways™, Buffalo Sunset, Rosh Immortality Cube Megaways™ and Nefertiti's Nile among the games that had “already won the hearts” of Spanish players. The phrase smells of advertising, of course. At least it points to the titles the provider was counting on to open the game.
What Nevena Aleksieva said about Spain
Numbers tell you the method. Words tell you the intention. In less than a year, Nevena Aleksieva, then Head of Sales at GameArt, spoke about Spain three times in the provider's press releases. Put side by side, her statements trace a clear path.
Date
Occasion
What she said
12 September 2022
The studio's first SBC Summit Barcelona
An established presence and games “performing well” there; the plan: expand that presence and supply more new content
7 March 2023
18 slots at CasinoBarcelona.es
Spain as “one of our key target markets”; the goal: “a significantly larger market share”
16 August 2023
SBC Summit Barcelona 2023 announcement
A “special place” due to the market's specific dynamics; carefully selected titles and content tailored to local preferences
The shift is hard to miss. We move from a studio noting that its games do well to a studio claiming a tailored strategy. In the show preview published in August 2023, she said it plainly: “Spain holds a special place for us due to its specific market dynamics.” What followed sums up the whole job of a B2B provider: catering to local players' preferences “while ensuring maximum profitability” for operators.
Should these words be taken at face value? A press release is a shop window, not a balance sheet. The studio's 2023 review also shows how busy that year was, Maltese licence included. But a shop window always says something about what the shopkeeper wants to sell. In 2023, GameArt clearly wanted to sell Spain.
Did the Spanish market prove the studio right?
Betting on Spain in 2023 meant backing a table that was already heating up. According to the 2023 figures reported by Focus Gaming News, online gambling GGR reached €1,236.75 million there, up 28.38% year on year. Two years later, the curve had not flattened.
Indicator (DGOJ data)
2023
2025
Online gaming GGR
€1,236.75m (+28.38%)
over €1,700m (+16.99%)
Online casino
€624.76m, or 50.52% of the total
€893m, or 52% of the total
Slots' share of casino revenue
61.55%
69.11%
Annual growth of slots
+28.09%
+30.78%
Average monthly active accounts
1,161,126
1,729,253
The figure that stops me is the share of slots, up from 61.55% to 69.11% of the online casino segment. By my calculation, that represents almost €385 million of GGR in 2023 and around €617 million in 2025. Reels now hold the upper hand over tables. These numbers describe the game, not each player's hand. They do explain, however, why GameArt was so keen to keep its seat.
Is Barcelona still the capital of trade shows?
For a few years, Barcelona was iGaming's big September meeting point. GameArt exhibited there for the first time in September 2022, at booth M3. The September 2022 press release quoted Tanja Campolunghi, Head of Marketing, delighted to be exhibiting “for the first time”. It also counted sixteen games already certified for Spain. A year later, booth CG86 and its dedicated page raised the stakes a notch.
Then the dealer reshuffled the deck. SBC Summit left Barcelona for Lisbon from 2024, while ICE moved from London to the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona in January 2025. In between, the provider had polished its London programme of February 2024, the last one before the move. Eleven months later, it was back in the Catalan capital.
Barcelona is no longer the home of SBC Summit, but it remains a must-visit stop. Since then, GameArt has kept its trade show roulette spinning from one city to the next, all the way to its Roman stopover in 2025 at SiGMA. The Catalan capital now sits firmly on its route. For a provider that talks about Spain, the symbol is hardly trivial.
Can you play these slots outside Spain?
Not automatically. A Spanish certification opens the Spanish regulated market, and that market alone. Each regulated jurisdiction runs its own approvals: a week before its Spanish batch of June 2023, GameArt announced nine more slots certified for the Netherlands. Whether a title is available to you depends on where you live and on the licences held by the site you play on. Some countries do not allow online casino games at all. Wherever you live, make sure the site holds a licence from your own country's regulator before you deposit.
If you live in Spain, one habit is worth more than any speech. A DGOJ-licensed site must ask for your time and spending limits before opening a slot session. If it lets you spin the reels without that step, it is not playing by Spanish rules. Walk away, and check that the operator appears on the DGOJ's list of licence holders before you put a single euro on the table.
What new rules are coming for Spanish players?
Spain keeps tightening the game. The Council of Ministers of 23 June 2026 approved a system of joint deposit limits per person: €700 a day, €1,750 a week and €3,300 over four weeks, across all operators combined. A tool run by the DGOJ will check these ceilings in real time. Players will be able to change or remove them, but only through a specific procedure that comes with stronger information on the risks.
The mechanics of a slot will not change, though the mood at the table probably will, a little. Fewer compulsive deposits and more players counting their chips? That is the government's bet. GameArt, for its part, has already pushed its chips forward. In May 2026, it signed with Solcasino, the Spanish brand of the Starcasino group. Its Spain page now shows seven more titles than the twenty-five of June 2023.
One question stays with me as I close this page: how long can a trade show showcase serve as a business card? Three years after the last dice rolled at booth CG86, gameart.net/spain is still there. In an industry that throws pages away like losing tickets, that loyalty feels reassuring, almost old-fashioned in the best sense. For GameArt, Spain was never a trade show bluff. It was a hand meant to be played over the long run.
FAQs:
What is the gameart.net/spain page?
It is the page GameArt put online on 13 September 2023 for SBC Summit Barcelona 2023: meeting bookings, a brochure to download, the booth CG86 tournament and the list of slots certified for Spain.
How many GameArt games are certified for Spain?
The studio announced 25 games certified for Spain in June 2023. Its Spain page listed 32 on 25 October 2026.
When did GameArt obtain Spanish certification?
In March 2019, after testing by the GLI laboratory, to meet the DGOJ's requirements.
Who regulates online gambling in Spain?
The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ). It grants licences to operators and approves their technical gaming systems, based on reports from laboratories it has designated.
What rules apply to online slots in Spain?
Orden HAP/1370/2014 requires time and spending limits set before each session, a maximum of 100 autoplay rounds, a minimum of 3 seconds per round and progressive jackpots only.
Which Spanish operators offer GameArt games?
Those announced by the studio include PASTÓN (August 2022), CasinoBarcelona.es (18 slots in March 2023) and Solcasino (May 2026).
What share of Spain's online casino revenue comes from slots?
According to DGOJ data, 61.55% of online casino GGR in 2023 and 69.11% in 2025.
Can you play GameArt's Spanish-certified slots outside Spain?
Not automatically. The certification covers the Spanish regulated market only, and each regulated market runs its own approvals. Availability depends on where you live and on the operator's licences.
What does Spain's deposit limit reform involve?
Approved on 23 June 2026, it sets per-person ceilings across all operators: €700 a day, €1,750 a week and €3,300 over four weeks. Players can change them through a specific procedure.
