Inspired Gaming

Inspired Gaming is the studio arm of Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ: INSE), a B2B supplier founded in London in 2002 by Luke Alvarez as Inspired Gaming Group and today headquartered in New York with major UK operations in Burton upon Trent. The company built its reputation in UK and Irish retail — betting-shop terminals, pub machines and video lottery — before porting that catalogue online, and it remains best known industry-wide as the long-time leader in Virtual Sports, winning EGR's Virtual Sports Supplier of the Year in both 2016 and 2017. For slot players, the interesting part is the Interactive division: roughly 300 online games, many of them faithful digital versions of land-based classics that UK players already know from the high street. Centurion is the flagship franchise — the Roman-themed original with its eight-part bonus ladder spawned Centurion Megaways and Centurion Big Money — alongside Cops 'n' Robbers, Gold Cash Free Spins and Big Fishing Fortune. Inspired licensed the Megaways mechanic from Big Time Gaming in 2019, debuting it with Desperados Wild Megaways, and has since applied it to several of its retail brands; Centurion Megaways runs a 6-reel cascade setup with up to 117,649 ways at around 95.9% RTP. The studio also works licensed IP, such as Space Invaders Win and Spin with Taito, and its Big Money and Win & Spin bonus mechanics recur across the range. Market position is strongest in the UK and Ireland, but reach is genuinely broad — SlotCatalog tracks Inspired as the number 4 provider in Sweden by lobby presence, and the group supplies regulated operators across Europe and several US states under UKGC, Italian ADM and other jurisdictional approvals. For bonus hunters, Inspired's catalogue skews toward feature-dense, retail-style games: distinct trigger-based bonus rounds (free spins, trails, pick bonuses) rather than pure base-game math, which makes many titles natural picks for hunt lists — though RTPs are often mid-range, so check the specific version your casino runs.