Push Gaming
A British studio with a short, heavily curated catalogue: it prefers a few titles with proprietary mechanics over high volume.
Studio profile
Razor Shark and its nudge mechanic are the house signature.
| Ownership | LeoVegas (MGM Resorts International), 86% since August 2023 |
|---|---|
| Licences | MGA, UKGC |
Documented catalogue
- Razor Shark — 96.70%, high volatility
The licences listed above are the ones the studio itself declares publicly. A developer holding a licence says nothing about the operator distributing its games: those are two separate authorisations, and the regulation page explains how to check the second one.
Who owns Push Gaming
The studio is no longer independent. On 31 August 2023, LeoVegas acquired 86% of Push Gaming Holding Limited for $146 million. LeoVegas is a wholly owned subsidiary of MGM Resorts International, and the figures above come from MGM's own filings with the SEC rather than from a press release.
Most coverage described the deal as "a majority stake". The precise number is 86%, the co-founders James Marshall and Winston Lee stayed on as chief executive and chief operating officer, and the studio continues to distribute through its own platform and remote gaming server.
Why this belongs on a data sheet: the company that builds these games is majority-owned by a group that also runs online casinos. That does not affect the certified maths — RNG and game logic are tested by independent labs and approved by regulators regardless of who owns the studio — but it is the kind of ownership link that a lobby never shows you, and it is publicly documented for anyone who looks at the right filing.
What a supplier licence actually covers
Push Gaming appears on the UK Gambling Commission's public register as Push Gaming Holding Plc, holding gambling software permissions. In Malta it holds a Critical Gaming Supply licence from the MGA. Approvals in further regulated markets — Ontario through the AGCO, Romania through the ONJN, and others — are listed by industry sources with some variation between them.
That variation is the reason to treat any provider licence list, including this one, as a starting point rather than an answer. Supplier approvals are added and renewed continuously, and the register of each regulator is the only current record.
The more important point is what the licence does not do. A supplier licence permits the studio to make and distribute games. It says nothing about whether the casino serving them to you is licensed for your country. Those are two separate authorisations held by two separate companies, and the regulation page sets out how to check the second one.
Where the company actually is
The corporate registration and the UKGC entry point to London. Some industry profiles describe day-to-day operations as running from Malta, with development staff in Kyiv, and headcount growing from around 30 people in 2019 to over a hundred today.
We have not been able to reconcile those descriptions against a primary source, so this sheet records the registered position and flags the rest as unverified. For a studio of this size the distinction between a registered office and an operating base is routine, and it matters only if you are checking a filing.
A deliberately small catalogue
Push Gaming releases in the region of a game a month at most, against several dozen a year from the large studios. The output is built around a handful of proprietary mechanics rather than volume:
- Nudging wilds that expand and drag the reel, the Razor Shark signature.
- Instant prize symbols carrying cash values on the grid, introduced in Fat Rabbit.
- Accumulating multiplier wilds whose values build through a bonus round.
- Cluster grids, including the 8x8 layout of Jammin' Jars, unconventional when it launched.
The commercial consequence is unusual: three titles from 2018 to 2019 — Jammin' Jars, Razor Shark, Wild Swarm — still carry a large share of the studio's revenue years later. MGM's valuation of the business at $146 million rests substantially on that back catalogue rather than on release volume.
Why there is no casino list here
"Push Gaming casinos" is one of the most common searches around this studio, and every list you find answering it is an affiliate placement. We do not publish operator lists, rankings or links, for the reason set out on the methodology page.
Checking it yourself is not difficult. Find operators licensed in your own jurisdiction on your regulator's public register, then look for the studio's name in the lobby filter. If a site offers these games but does not appear on the register that covers you, the second fact matters more than the first.
Questions people actually ask about this studio
Who owns Push Gaming? LeoVegas, part of MGM Resorts International, holds 86% since August 2023. The founders remain in place as CEO and COO.
Is Push Gaming a casino? No. It is a B2B supplier and builds video slots only — no live dealer, no table games, no bingo.
Does a Push Gaming licence make a casino safe? No. The studio's licence covers the studio. Whether the operator is licensed for your country is a separate question with a separate register.
Why are there so few Push Gaming games? By design. The studio builds a small number of titles around proprietary mechanics, and its oldest releases still carry much of the business.