Core Gaming review: Flutter's HTML5 studio and its online casinos

Key points about the game provider Core Gaming

• Studio: Core Gaming is a British HTML5 casino game studio based in Solihull, in the West Midlands, whose company CORE GAMING LIMITED (no. 07168306) has carried this name since 14 April 2011.
• Owner: acquired by Sky Betting & Gaming on 10 June 2016, passed to The Stars Group in 2018 and then to Flutter Entertainment in 2020, it has been part of Flutter Studios since 2023 alongside Cayetano Gaming and Stars Studios.
• Exclusivity: since 2023 the studio produces only for the casino brands of the Flutter group; its games are no longer sold to outside operators.
• Licence: the UKGC remote gambling software licence 040618-R-320670-008 ran from 25 March 2015 to 23 December 2025 and was surrendered; no active licence remains in the studio's name.
• Regulatory cover: the games are now covered by the operating licences of the operators that host them, including Bonne Terre Gaming Limited (UKGC 065519-R-339675-003, active since 18 November 2024) for the Sky brands.
• Alderney: as of 16 October 2026, the AGCC list of licensees mentions neither Core Gaming nor Bonne Terre; the "regulated by the AGCC" line found in directories is out of date.
• Portfolio: no official list; 15 documented titles as of 16 October 2026, including Beehive Bedlam Reactors, Colossus Fracpot, Evel Knievel, Scratch 4, Pharaoh's Wild, Cashzuma, Golden Odyssey and Password.
• Categories: video slots, including one progressive jackpot, a 3D roulette (2014), a scratch card (Scratch 4) and on-demand virtual racing developed with SIS (2015).
• 2025 finances: revenue of £1.25 million, a loss of £4.3 million, net liabilities of £10.8 million; staff recharged by the group and a letter of support from Flutter Entertainment plc.
• Demos and casinos: the official site core-gaming.info is a single page with no game list and no demo; on Kynox, the CASINO filter lists the regulated online casinos in your jurisdiction (3 operators on 16 October 2026) and the GAMES filter gathers the playable demos.

Core Gaming: the Solihull HTML5 studio and the online casinos that host its games

Core Gaming is a British casino game studio working in HTML5, based in Solihull in the West Midlands, bought by Sky Betting & Gaming on 10 June 2016 and filed since 2023 under Flutter Studios, the in-house creative division of the Flutter Entertainment group. Its story starts a long way from the big groups, though. In late 2013 this small studio made its name by porting to mobile the first titles of the Sydney creator of Lucky Streak and Gold, before signing a 3D roulette for Sky's casino brand in February 2014. Ten years on, the official website fits on a single page, the British licence was surrendered on 23 December 2025 and the games now circulate only within the group's own brands. This is a profile that tells less the story of a provider than that of a successful absorption.

The CASINO button at the top of the page lists the regulated online casinos in your jurisdiction that offer Core Gaming titles, and the GAMES button gathers the titles playable in demo mode on Kynox, since the official site hosts none. On 16 October 2026 the CASINO filter showed three operators. If the filter comes back empty where you are, it means no online casino accessible from your country carries this provider: there is no hidden list and no access to request.

Where can you play Core Gaming titles at a regulated online casino?

The answer comes down to two buttons and a word of caution. The CASINO filter only keeps operators holding a valid licence where you connect from, because Kynox geolocates its results across its three domains. One point deserves spelling out: a supplier licence is not an operator licence. What protects you as a player is the licence held by the casino you sign up with, issued by the regulator of your own country of residence. If your country does not authorise online casinos, the filter will stay empty, and I would rather write that in black and white than let anyone imagine a back door.

The GAMES filter answers a different frustration. Core Gaming publishes no demo on its site, does not even list its titles, and the free play section of Kynox Casino becomes the only place where you can judge the studio's work without opening an account. Slots make up most of it, which matches the heart of the Solihull output, and you can compare these British reels to spin with play money against those of dozens of other providers.

One piece of context matters for British players, who remain this studio's first audience. Since the ban that came into force on 14 April 2020, announced by the Gambling Commission on 14 January of the same year, operators in Great Britain can no longer accept credit cards, and the debit cards imposed on British players since April 2020 have become the default deposit method on the sites that host Core Gaming.

An official website cut down to a single page

I am used to combing through chatty provider websites, with game sheets, press releases and roadmaps. Here, none of that. The domain core-gaming.info serves a single-page React application whose meta description boils down to three words, "Part of FlutterStudios". On 16 October 2026 the page showed two logos (Flutter Studios and CORE Gaming), a video of one minute and ten seconds, two paragraphs of presentation, a "Check us out!" block with links to LinkedIn and Glassdoor, and a postal address. The copyright reads "2026 CoreGaming - Flutter Studios - Flutter Entertainment Plc".

The presentation text is worth quoting for its caution. Core Gaming describes itself as a "leading developer of HTML5 games" built to give the best possible experience on desktop and on the most popular mobile devices, thanks to an "efficient, flexible and adaptable" HTML5 framework. Not a word about casino, not a figure, not a single game name. Two typos survive in the address, "Blenhiem" for Blenheim and "United Kindgom" for United Kingdom, which says a lot about how often anyone proofreads it. The postcode button opens a Google map centred on "Core Gaming Ltd" in Solihull, from an embed dated June 2023.

Core Gaming identity card

Behind the brand sits CORE GAMING LIMITED, a private limited company registered in England and Wales under number 07168306. The companies register, consulted on 16 October 2026, gives a far more precise timeline than any directory.

The declared activity code is 62020, information technology consultancy, an administrative label that says nothing about casino. The directors in office on 16 October 2026 are Ian David Fraser Proctor, there since the 2016 takeover, and Rebecca Jane Sturgeon, with Christina King as company secretary. The register notes that no director holds shares in the company and that their duties are "incidental" to their employment with Flutter Entertainment plc.

Born in Nottingham with a Welsh investor

The legal history deserves a careful read. The 2010 shell was a Nottingham florist company, taken over and renamed in April 2011: that is the date I keep as the documented starting point, for lack of any primary source behind the "2007" repeated by some directories. The first director, Stephen John Murray, appears from incorporation according to the list of officers, resigns in June 2012, returns in September 2012 and leaves the board on the day of the Sky takeover, 6 June 2016. The trade press then describes him as the lead investor exiting the capital. The Cardiff registered office between 2012 and 2016 matches his correspondence address, while Justin Chamberlain, the operational boss, is domiciled in Warwickshire, twenty minutes from Solihull.

Solihull: the address that counts

The registered office may have been in Birmingham since June 2023, in the group's offices at One Chamberlain Square, but the team works in Solihull. That is the address shown on the official site, the one carried by the Gambling Commission register, and the one Flutter International gives on its careers page about Flutter Studios. Splitting the legal seat from the operating address is common in listed groups, yet it is worth noting when you compare with other English studios that keep an address of their own, such as the British network based in Essex, the London home of Slingo or the studio in my 4ThePlayer profile.

From independent studio to Flutter's in-house workshop

2013-2016: the years when Core Gaming sold its HTML5 to everyone

On 10 December 2013, InterGame reported a deal between Core Gaming, described as a developer of HTML5 casino games for tablets, and an Australian studio that was then just starting out. Justin Chamberlain, quoted as CEO, explained that Lucky Streak and Gold were "engaging players around the world" and that these games had "really strong identities". Core brought the mobile version; the Australians brought the mechanics. That is the studio's original B2B model: a technical contractor that converts and optimises.

Two months later, on 11 February 2014, Core signed with Sky for a suite of table games, starting with a "mobile first" roulette featuring a fully rendered 3D wheel and an in-house physics engine to simulate the ball drop. Mark Rehorst-Smith, then chief creative officer, spoke of one of the first "truly multi-channel" deliveries. In a sector where the workshops coding roulette in HTML5 could still be counted on one hand, this order gave the studio its first consumer-facing showcase, and today you can compare the result with other RNG roulette tables to try for free.

In late 2015 the studio widened its range. On 16 December 2015 a development partnership with SIS, the British betting content supplier, led to a range of on-demand virtual racing (horses, greyhounds, cycling) launched the previous week on Sky's casino brand. Marc Thomas at SIS saw it as a "crossover product" between sports betting and casino mechanics, enough to place Core among the rare suppliers of on-demand virtual racing that came from casino rather than from betting.

Then came land-based. At the ICE show in London in February 2016, Storm Gaming Technology, a British maker of pub and club machines, extended its supply agreement to carry Colossus Fracpot, Reel Force Five and Evel Knievel onto its physical machines, with a Fracpot Warrior produced for a major bookmaker. Richard Sheldon, Storm's boss, called the content "a proven commercial success". This omnichannel logic, from mobile to cabinet, runs opposite to the usual path: normally it is players like the British specialist in retail terminals or the British neighbour owned by the Gauselmann group who come down from the arcade to the screen.

10 June 2016: the takeover by Sky Betting & Gaming

On 10 June 2016, Sky Betting & Gaming, based in Leeds, announced the acquisition of Core Gaming, reported the same day by SBC News, already a key supplier of its mobile games. Conor Grant, the group's gaming director, summed up the deal in one line: Core "has been a key part of our mobile casino success story". The price was not disclosed. Justin Chamberlain stayed on as managing director, investor Steve Murray exited, and the Birmingham firm Orbis Partners advised on the sale. The register confirms the mechanics: new articles adopted on 14 June, Cyan Blue Core Limited declared as a shareholder above 75% from 6 June, registered office moved to Wellington Place in Leeds.

The takeover did not close every door at once. On 7 July 2016 Core signed with a British group of land-based and online casinos for nine titles, including Beehive Bedlam Reactors, Colossus Fracpot and Scratch 4. On 2 May 2017 an independent Maltese online casino went live with Beehive Bedlam and Pharaoh's Wild, with Frank Hutchinson, chief operating officer, promising "the full pipeline" of HTML5 slots. On 26 September 2017, Bede Gaming added Core titles to its PLAY platform, alongside IGT, Novomatic and Scientific Games. Then the press fell silent. Justin Chamberlain left the board on 10 May 2018.

2018-2020: Stars Group, then Flutter

The rest of the story reads in the parent company's accounts. CVC Capital Partners had acquired around 80% of Sky Betting & Gaming in 2015 for £600 million, with Sky keeping 20%. In 2018 CVC and Sky sold the whole business to The Stars Group for £3.4 billion, and on 29 January 2019 the register records the arrival of Rafael Ashkenazi, then Stars' chief executive, on the Core Gaming board. In 2020 Flutter Entertainment absorbed The Stars Group. Each step leaves its mark on the list of directors: Guy Templer in 2019, Conor Grant in 2020, Ian Brown appointed "Chief Executive Officer" of Core on 17 November 2022, Stephen Birch from 2020 to 2025. A Solihull studio run from Leeds, Toronto and then Dublin: the geography of the capital tells the whole story.

2023: the creation of Flutter Studios

Flutter International presents Flutter Studios as its "creative arm", established in 2023, bringing together three in-house studios and developing casino content "exclusively for Flutter casino brands worldwide". The three workshops are Core Gaming in Solihull, Cayetano Gaming in Sofia, founded in 2009 with more than 200 games to its name, and Stars Studios in Toronto. For Core, the page names three titles: Cashzuma, Golden Odyssey and Password. The word "exclusively" changes the nature of the studio. Between 2013 and 2017 Core sold to anyone who wanted its games; since 2023 it produces for a single client, its owner. The path resembles that of the British workshop bought by Evolution in 2019, with one difference: that one still sells outside.

Core Gaming games: what do we really know about the portfolio?

No official list exists. Neither the website, nor Flutter, nor the annual accounts give a number of titles. Third-party demo directories show between 60 and 80 games attributed to Core Gaming, but those inventories mix ports, regional versions and white-label titles, and I do not reuse them. What I can document are the games named by primary sources or by the trade press.

Fifteen titles identified in thirteen years, for a studio that has existed almost entirely through the lobbies of a single group. The contrast with studios that announce every release is striking, and that is exactly why my directory of studios sorted by origin and game type attaches a date to every figure.

Four categories and one signature

Slots dominate. The studio favours feature-driven video grids designed first for the touchscreen, which places it among the designers of video slots built for touch rather than among the heirs of the arcade. The 2014 roulette and the promise of "more table games in the coming months" form the second family. Scratch 4 opens the third, that of the on-screen instant scratch workshops. The 2015 virtual racing, finally, remains a curiosity: few casino studios have ventured into on-demand race simulation.

If you look for a signature, it is cultural rather than mechanical. Evel Knievel, Beehive Bedlam, Carry on Camping in third-party directories: Core draws on British television and popular culture. This is a studio that speaks to a precise audience, players in the United Kingdom, and that never needed to win anyone over elsewhere. At the opposite end, a historic British brand of arcade machines built its reputation on transposed mechanics, not on TV licences.

Beehive Bedlam Reactors: the textbook case

Launched on 16 September 2015 on Sky's casino brand, Beehive Bedlam Reactors is the seventh game of a twenty-title contract between Core and its future acquirer. It adapts Beehive Bedlam, a social game that ran for more than ten years on the Sky Games interactive TV platform. Exclusive for six months, until February 2016, it was then due to join the distribution platform that took over after the exclusivity as well as GECO. The spec sheet of the time announced payouts of up to £250,000 and a progressive jackpot that could exceed that ceiling, which ranks the studio among the studios that graft a progressive pot onto their grids. Justin Chamberlain described it as "a fun and colourful game" that "offers a good return to players". All of Core Gaming is there: an in-house TV brand, a British audience, an exclusive for the operator in the family.

Licences and compliance: where does Core Gaming stand in 2026?

A UKGC licence surrendered on 23 December 2025

The Gambling Commission's public register, consulted on 16 October 2026, still holds the CORE Gaming Limited record under account number 40618, with the Solihull address. The remote gambling software licence ("Gambling Software, Remote"), number 040618-R-320670-008, ran from 25 March 2015 to 23 December 2025 and carries the status "Surrendered". No regulatory action is recorded, no trading name and no domain is attached. Ten years and nine months of a licence of its own, then a voluntary hand-back.

Surrendering a licence is not closing up shop, and that is where the reading gets interesting. The site's 2026 copyright, the accounts filed in September 2026 and the Flutter Studios page all show an active studio. What changed is the chain of responsibility: a workshop producing "exclusively" for its group's brands no longer needs a supplier licence, since the operators' operating licences cover the release. The situation differs from that of a British peer turned archive page, whose activity has truly stopped.

The licences that carry the games today

On the British market, the five Sky gaming brands that host Core Gaming are now run by Bonne Terre Gaming Limited, a Gibraltar company listed under account 65519 and holder of a remote casino and bingo licence active since 18 November 2024 (number 065519-R-339675-003). The former operating company, Bonne Terre Limited of Leeds, surrendered its own licences on 31 October 2025, two months before Core. What you read there is a wholesale reorganisation of the group's British entities, not a withdrawal.

Outside the United Kingdom, everything depends on the licence of the operator that welcomes you. Flutter's other brands in Europe answer to their respective national regulators, and that is precisely what the CASINO filter checks: the operator's licence in your jurisdiction, not the studio's, which no longer exists.

The Alderney question

Several third-party sites still claim that Core Gaming titles are "regulated by the UK Gambling Commission and the Alderney commission". On 16 October 2026 the list of eGambling licensees published by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission mentions neither Core Gaming nor Bonne Terre. The claim rested on the former attachment of Sky's casino brand to Alderney; it no longer matches the registers. I stick to the registers.

2025 figures: what the accounts say

The amended accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025, signed by Ian Proctor on 27 August 2026 and audited by KPMG Dublin on 4 September 2026, are the most candid source on the state of the studio. The declared activity is "the development and integration of gambling games within the online and mobile gaming market", with no significant change over the period.

Three readings stand out. First, turnover comes "from related group companies based predominantly in the United Kingdom and Ireland": Core no longer invoices anyone but Flutter, which confirms the announced exclusivity. Second, the studio has no payroll of its own. The £3.12 million of staff costs are recharged by other group companies, and no director is paid by Core. Third, going concern rests on a letter of financial support from Flutter Entertainment plc, which commits to cover needs for at least twelve months. A studio that loses £4.3 million on £1.25 million of revenue is not a business in the usual sense: it is a cost centre whose bill the group accepts in order to keep exclusive games. The accounts also note that Flutter delisted its shares from the London Stock Exchange on 3 August 2026 to concentrate its listing in New York.

Core Gaming is not Core Gaming

One clarification is needed for anyone searching for the provider online. An American namesake, Core Gaming, Inc., based in Miami, develops AI-assisted "casual" mobile games, claims more than 2,000 games and 600 million downloads, and has signed a merger agreement with Siyata Mobile, listed on the Nasdaq, as reported by Nasdaq. It has no connection with the Solihull studio, makes no gambling games and appears at no online casino. The two names have been blurring together in search results since 2025, hence this note.

My verdict on Core Gaming

Core Gaming is one of the hardest studios in my directory to assess, not because it hides anything, but because it has nothing left to sell outside, and so nothing left to tell. The one-page site, the missing game list, the licence surrendered in December 2025, everything points to a workshop working behind closed doors for a single client. From the player's point of view, the consequence is simple: you will only come across its games at the Flutter group brands, and if you are not a customer of those brands, the studio does not exist for you.

What I keep as a positive is the trajectory. Between 2013 and 2016 a Solihull team convinced an Australian studio that has since become a global reference, a betting supplier, a cabinet manufacturer and two large operator groups to entrust it with HTML5, at a time when most providers were still dragging Flash catalogues around. Beehive Bedlam Reactors, adapted from an interactive TV game, is a clever product idea rooted in a local culture. I find it a shame that this agility was absorbed so quickly.

What irritates me is a matter of transparency. A studio belonging to a listed group, with public accounts, could at least publish the list of its titles and their return-to-player rates. The typos in the official address, uncorrected for years, and the cookie window pointing to an abandoned domain betray a site nobody proofreads any more. For a player, that means any reliable information about a Core Gaming title sits in the game sheet at the operator, never at the provider. I will update this page as soon as an official list, a certification report or a new filing at the register changes the picture.

FAQ: Core Gaming

What is Core Gaming?

Core Gaming is a British HTML5 casino game studio based in Solihull, in the West Midlands. Acquired by Sky Betting & Gaming on 10 June 2016, it now belongs to Flutter Entertainment and has been part of Flutter Studios, the group's in-house creative division, since 2023.

Where can you play Core Gaming titles at a regulated online casino?

The CASINO filter on this page lists the online casinos licensed in your jurisdiction that offer Core Gaming titles. On 16 October 2026, three operators were showing. An empty filter means no online casino accessible from your country carries this provider.

Can you play Core Gaming titles for free in demo mode?

Yes, through the GAMES filter on this page. The official site core-gaming.info publishes neither a game list nor a trial version, so free play is only possible on third-party sites such as Kynox Casino.

Is Core Gaming a reliable and licensed provider?

Core Gaming held a remote gambling software licence from the British Gambling Commission (number 040618-R-320670-008) from 25 March 2015 to 23 December 2025, when it was surrendered. Since then its games are covered by the operating licences of the Flutter group operators that host them, with no regulatory action recorded in the register.

Who owns Core Gaming?

Core Gaming Limited has been more than 75% owned by Cyan Bidco Limited since 4 October 2019, a company itself controlled by Flutter Entertainment plc, a group listed in New York and based in Dublin. Sky Betting & Gaming acquired the studio in 2016, before the takeovers by The Stars Group in 2018 and by Flutter in 2020.

How many games has Core Gaming created?

No official list exists. As of 16 October 2026, fifteen titles are documented by primary sources or the trade press, including Beehive Bedlam Reactors, Colossus Fracpot, Evel Knievel, Scratch 4, Cashzuma, Golden Odyssey and Password. Third-party directories put forward 60 to 80 games, a figure that cannot be verified.

What types of games does Core Gaming offer?

Core Gaming mainly produces video slots, including one progressive jackpot title, as well as a 3D roulette, a scratch card (Scratch 4) and a range of on-demand virtual racing developed with SIS in 2015.

What is Core Gaming's best-known game?

Beehive Bedlam Reactors, launched on 16 September 2015, adapts a social game broadcast for more than ten years on Sky Games interactive TV. It advertised payouts of up to £250,000 plus a progressive jackpot, and it stayed exclusive to Sky's casino brand for six months.

Why did Core Gaming surrender its UKGC licence in December 2025?

The register gives no reason. Since 2023 the studio has produced exclusively for Flutter's casino brands and invoices only group companies, which makes a supplier licence redundant: going live falls under the operators' licences. The 2025 accounts, filed in September 2026, confirm a studio that is still active.

Is Core Gaming of Solihull the same company as Core Gaming, Inc. of Miami?

No. Core Gaming, Inc. is an American casual mobile game company with no link to the British casino studio. It has announced a merger with Siyata Mobile, listed on the Nasdaq, and makes no gambling games.

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• Core Gaming official website
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• Gambling Commission, Bonne Terre Gaming Limited record (account 65519)
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