NetEnt is a company that was born in 1996 and that nowadays has grown to become one of the main players in the development of iGaming and land-based games. The NetEnt company, which has remained unchanged for almost 20 years, started out in this emerging world as a developer of solutions for their own online casino provider.
It was in the year 2000 that NetEnt's plans took shape to build a solid digital casino provider after four years of experience. This growth was so rapid that in the same year, NetEnt managed to improve on its first provider and set up four other online casinos that grew just as fast and had a very loyal clientele. At the same time, it was very difficult to do better than NetEnt at that time.
A few years later, just two short years later, NetEnt elaborated its provider by developing a new technology called Casino Module. During the same period, NetEnt became more versatile and started to develop internet sports betting with the birth of new structures.
In particular, improvements in ergonomics, stability, a clear improvement in the technical service dedicated to players through multi-language platforms, etc. All of this is perfectly framed in such a way as to offer the entire system important quarterly updates.
NetEnt's adventure began in one of the three Scandinavian countries, Sweden. More precisely in the capital of this Nordic country which is Stockholm. Around 2005, the Swedish firm became an international company through its ambition. It was time for NetEnt to expand to new horizons by spreading its tentacles with development offices in Gibraltar, Malta, Ukraine, Poland and even the United States.
Made up of teams of enthusiasts always looking for innovation, NetEnt has over 100 employees working hard to deliver an unforgettable gaming experience and I can confirm that their plans are on target with exceptionally high quality games, many of which are three dimensional.
Going back to that key date in 2005 when NetEnt underwent major changes in its infrastructure, the company ceased to be directly involved in the continuous improvement and monitoring of virtual casino platforms. As a result, its entire casino network was put up for sale and then quickly bought out. Such a decision for NetEnt to take a new turn and take advantage of the latter to go all out in the pure development of online casino games.
To date, in 2016 to be precise, NetEnt has built a real empire in the world of three dimensional online gambling. Currently, nearly 200 digital casino operators trust it, such as Unibet, Casumo, 888 casino, Bwin or Betfair, and we will understand why in the next paragraph.
NetEnt is a gambling publisher that no longer counts its awards received over the years.
It all started from 2010 and 2012 at the ERG Awards where the Scandinavian-born company won the award for best RNG (random number generator) online casino provider.
At the ERG Awards gala in 2013, NetEnt was voted to proudly carry three awards including desktop (computer) game innovation, mobile game innovation and mobile game provider of the year. That year, NetEnt was highly recommended to operators looking to partner with a company that is an expert in unique thrilling games.
2014 was an emotional year for NetEnt game designers. It began when the IGA Awards took place and this was the first time NetEnt representatives set foot there and they were right to do so as they walked away with the award for the best gaming innovator of the year in their pocket. In the same year at the WIG Awards, NetEnt received the Gaming Leader of the Year award. At the Global Gaming Awards held in Las Vegas, NetEnt received the prestigious title of honour and was voted as the Digital Product Innovator of the Year.
Last year, 2015, NetEnt won the award for the best dealer game publisher of the year at the 2015 WIG Awards. Also during the course of this year, the company received a triple award during the ERG Awards 2015 with the Innovation Award for the Best Slots & Video Slots Provider of the Year, Best Mobile Innovator and Best Provider of the Year.
NetEnt has now held onto its awards for three consecutive years, making it one of the most successful game publishers in the world. With this army of awards that has earned it worldwide success with collaborations that continue to grow, NetEnt adds an extra measure of quality by being listed on the Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm.
When you receive so many awards without ever breaking the chain over time, you can quickly say that you are part of the top layer of online gambling publishers. Without pretension, NetEnt expresses it loud and clear and this is what actually pushes all the players in this industry to improve their services.
Both to activate that sense of challenge to the competition and on another point which is to significantly accelerate the technological level. An accentuation of the progression to offer players all over the world games of exemplary realism with a growing user experience.
NetEnt is a pioneer in the eGaming world. The company develops a new game every 45 days, but this is an average. Nowadays, the company operates on all fronts of online entertainment, knowing that one of its greatest specialties remains the development of three-dimensional slot machines.
Apart from the 5-reel one-armed bandits, more than half of which feature stunning cinematography and unbeatable fixed and progressive jackpots, NetEnt is also at home with table games (roulette and blackjack), bingo, video and scratch cards. Its games library currently has more than 160 titles, a good ten of which were developed in collaboration with Universal. I am thinking in particular of the video slots Dracula, Cornelius™ or The Invisible Man, to name but a few.
As of May 29, 2016, NetEnt has several licenses allowing it to operate legally in the jurisdictions of Alderney, Belgium, Gibraltar, Malta, New Jersey, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom. With this significant number of regulatory licenses in its pocket, NetEnt adopts a responsible gaming policy, fairness in its provider drive and complete program security to meet the requirements of the regulators.
NetEnt's provider is RNG certified, tested and certified as compliant by independent random testing laboratories (ATF) in order to properly meet the various missions listed above. The ATF label includes eCOGRA, Games Laboratory International which is an inspection company for NetEnt's provider and other competitors in the internet gambling market.
ATF also includes iTech Labs which is a platform for testing games to certify them as compliant with the specifications that represent RNG (Random Number Generator). To ensure that NetEnt's provider is secure and fully transparent to them and their customers, these verification tests are carried out throughout the year via walk-in audits.
In-depth test series that can be conducted either internally or externally so that the reliability of NetEnt's provider can be checked at any time. To ensure protection for compulsive gamblers, NetEnt's Casino Module has an organised cell to significantly reduce gambling addiction problems.
To this end, NetEnt ensures a self-exclusion policy that can be temporary or permanent in all the brand's establishments, sets limits on the maximum time spent playing or spending per day, week or month, as well as the speed of the game, which can be slower, or the implementation of a talking clock to more blatantly inform the time that players spend on their entertainment.
