Stakelogic Fined £122,835 for Making Their Slot Games Too Fast

The casino game supplier Stakelogic has been fined £122,835 for making their slot games play too fast.

UK gambling regulations were changed back in 2021 in a bid to slow down slots, with game developers having to adhere to the new rules as part of their licensing obligations.

However, after conducting a lengthy investigation, the Gambling Commission has found that some Stakelogic slots run faster than the 2.5 second per spin threshold.

Too Fast

Stakelogic has been providing slot games to casinos in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world since 2014.

They had never drawn the ire of the Gambling Commission until this week, when they were charged with failing to meet ‘responsible product design standards.’

The Remote Technical Standards, amended in 2021 as part of an overhaul of the Gambling Act 2005, require at least 2.5 seconds of time to pass before players can spin the reels again.

This reduced intensity was designed to tackle irresponsible gambling behaviours, giving players more time to think between each spin. Other features, such as autoplay and ‘quick spin’ style features, were also outlawed in the rule changes.

Research conducted by independent bodies has found a correlation between faster game speeds and increased risk of gambling harm; hence why the changes were introduced.

Stakelogic initially self-reported earlier this year after finding that one of their slots, the popular Tiger Temple 88, ran with just 1.97 seconds between spins – a significant breach of the technical standards.

That initiated a full investigation on the part of the Gambling Commission, who performed a full re-test of Stakelogic’s entire portfolio of games that are available at UK casinos and gaming sites.

The result? A further 15 slots were found to have breached the Remote Technical Standards as well.

A Need for (Less) Speed

Remarkably, the cause of Stakelogic’s licence failings have been attributed to the fact that they used a manual stopwatch – rather than a digital counter – to record the play times of their games.

Of the impacted slots, Tiger Temple 88 was one of the fastest, with the technical breach occurring over the course of three days in May 2025.

However, the other 15 slots impacted had a much longer timeframe for non-compliance, with some of the games found to have breached the 2.5 second per guidance from October 2021 to October 2025.

The slots ran from 0.001 seconds too fast up to 0.675 seconds, with the majority coming in at around 0.042 seconds faster than the regulated minimum speed.

Of course, any timeframe – no matter how big or small – is punishable when breaching technical standards; hence the scale of the sanction metered out to Stakelogic.

The gambling commission’s director of enforcement and intelligence, John Pierce, was incredulous that a tech firm used a manual stopwatch to record their spin times.

“With all the technological resources available to an online gambling business, it is unacceptable that Stakelogic were relying on a manual stopwatch to measure the speed of their games,” Pierce commented.

“After reporting this error to the Commission, Stakelogic immediately self-suspended the use of the affected games until the error had been rectified. They have subsequently taken significant steps to assure the Commission that they now have robust policies and procedures in place to prevent future breaches from occurring.

“We would urge all operators to take careful note of this case and ensure they have effective testing practices in place to ensure they are meeting all the standards we require.”

The fine, which is the first official regulatory action on Stakelogic’s file, has been deemed an appropriate settlement of the case by the Commission.