In Touch Games casinos

In Touch Games Casinos

In Touch Games casinos included mFortune, PocketWin, Mr Spin, Dr Slot and Casino 2020. In Touch Games Limited surrendered UKGC licence account 2091 on 5 September 2023, so these are historical sister sites and none should be treated as a currently licensed UK casino.

Former In Touch Games casino brands

Bonus Boss
Cashmo
Casino 2020
Dr Slot
Jammy Monkey
mFortune
Mr Spin
Pocket Win

In Touch Games Limited Information

Current UK status: In Touch Games no longer holds a British operating licence. The Commission suspended its licences on 1 September 2023 and the company surrendered them four days later. The brand information below is retained as a historical record, not as a list of casinos currently available to UK players.

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Who are In Touch Games?

It’s increasingly common for iGaming and casino network companies that appear to be UK-based to actually not be. For tax reasons, practicality reasons and a hundred other reasons to go with them, plenty of iGaming companies have long since abandoned the UK – from an operational point of view – to set up head offices in Gibraltar, Malta, or somewhere else in Europe. In Touch Games Limited has never gone down that route. This is a company which is proud to be British and has its head office in Birmingham. It hasn’t always been in Birmingham, but we’ll come back to that in a moment.

In Touch Games built its reputation as a mobile-led British casino company with small, distinctive game catalogues and a large amount of in-house content. Those casinos are no longer licensed for British customers. The summaries below explain how the former brands differed while they traded and why they still appear in older searches.

The History of In Touch Games Limited

In Touch Games Limited was founded in Halesowen in 2001 by Simon Wilson and Emil Nestor. The founders of the firm remain in charge as directors to this day. The original version of the company had no interest in making casino games or casino websites, though; instead, it made “leisure machines.” That’s a woolly way of saying that In Touch made pub quiz machines and slots cabinets, all of which could be played with a touchscreen – hence the name. In keeping with the idea of making machines that could stand in pubs and bars, the company came up with the “Sound Storm” digital MP3 jukebox in 2006. The jukebox unit would go on to become the default choice of big-name pub chains like Marstons for several years.

Everything changed for In Touch Games in 2007 when it launched mFortune, the brand that became the flagship of the former network. The first version was shown to attendees of the ICE exhibition at Earl’s Court with only four games: a slot, poker, blackjack and roulette. The company also opened offices in Romania that year, and mFortune became the base from which the wider group of mobile casino brands was built.

Bring on the Brands

No matter how good the four brands mFortune was launched with were, the lack of options hurt the casino’s appeal. As such, In Touch Games spent the next couple of years adding new gaming options to the site, including the original Pirate’s Treasure slot, bingo games, and a steady stream of original slots games developed in-house by the company. By 2010, In Touch Games felt like it had a decent grip on how the world of online casinos worked, so it decided it was time to give mFortune a sister site. The second casino to launch under the In Touch Games umbrella was PocketWin.

By now, the company was beginning to attract attention within the industry. In Touch Games picked up a “Product of the Year” award from the EGR Operator Awards in 2012 and picked up “Best Bingo Operator” and “Best Poker Operator” that same year at the mGaming (Mobile Gaming) awards. Inspired by its own success, In Touch Game made multiple hires, bringing in graphic designers, a marketing team, and other new departments designed to take the company to the next level. By the end of 2015, there were eighty people directly employed by In Touch, and the company had to move to larger, newer offices in Halesowen in 2016 to accommodate its ever-growing family.

Hard Times for In Touch Gaming

As 2016 gave way to 2017, things were still going well for In Touch Games. Mr Spin, the operator’s third brand, went live at the end of 2016. The fourth brand, Dr Slot, was added in 2018. By this point, the company’s workforce had swollen to 300 people. 2019 saw the launch of Cashmo Casino and the appropriately-named Casino 2020, which turned out to be a surprise hit and one of the most popular casino sites of the following year across the UK. Put simply, save for the obvious horrors of 2020, things couldn’t have been going any better for the business. When it launched Bonus Boss as brand number seven that year, it must have thought the good times would last forever.

Sadly, this wasn’t to be. Jammy Monkey, launched in 2021, is the last new casino site the company has launched to date – and those shiny new offices in Halesowen are now closed. Recent years have seen the operator get in trouble with the UK Gambling Commission more than once (further information about that is available below), and then 2022 saw the entire company sold to Skywind Holdings – another iGaming company based in the Isle of Man. Whether the sale would have been necessary had the problems with the UKGC not arisen is something we’ll never know, but when Skywind took ownership of the company in June of that year, it decided to make changes.

The biggest change that Skywind made to its newly-acquired asset was to shift it from Halesowen to a new address in Birmingham. The move came with redundancies, and the timing couldn’t have been worse. Fifty employees at the In Touch Gaming office in Halesowen were laid off just before Christmas, and the lack of warning plus the poor timing meant that In Touch Games Limited found its name in national newspapers for all the wrong reasons. From the heady heights of sponsoring the shirts of West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League a few years earlier, In Touch Games suddenly found itself public enemy number one on its home turf. The company’s reputation is yet to recover.

In Touch Games Limited and the UKGC

In Touch Games Limited formerly held a full UK Gambling Commission licence under account number 2091, but those licences have now ended and the group’s casinos are closed to UK players. Even while the licence was active, it wasn’t exactly what you’d call clean, and some of the issues identified by the UKGC were serious.

In March 2021, In Touch Games Limited was fined £3.4m, issued with a formal warning and had additional conditions attached to its operating licence after the UKGC undertook a regulatory review of its operations and found multiple licence breaches. The failures related to fair and transparent practices, anti-money laundering, customer interaction, marketing, and combating problem gambling. At the time, the Commission noted that In Touch Games cooperated fully with the Commission throughout the whole process. That ought to have been a wake-up call for the company, but if it was, the company soon forgot the lessons it had learned.

In January 2023, In Touch Games received a further £6.1m financial penalty after failures involving customer interaction and anti-money-laundering controls. The Commission noted that the business took immediate remedial action. Its licences were then suspended on 1 September 2023 and surrendered on 5 September 2023, ending the operator’s licensed British casino activity.

What the former In Touch Games brands offered

Historical reviews: the five summaries below describe the brands before the 2023 licence surrender. They are not current recommendations and UK players should not register or deposit on a site merely because it still uses one of these names.

Casino 2020

Casino 2020 logo Casino 2020 launched at the end of 2019 with a name that matched the searches players would make during the following year. That simple idea gave it visibility beyond the rest of the network. It later closed to British players after In Touch Games surrendered its licence, so the brand now matters chiefly as part of the operator’s history.

Mr Spin

Mr Spin logo Mr Spin launched in 2016 and, despite its slots-led name, also offered roulette and bingo. Its catalogue of roughly fifty slots was sizeable by the standards of the compact In Touch network. The product is now historical for British players because the operator no longer holds a UK licence.

Bonus Boss

Bonus Boss logo Bonus Boss was the most character-led brand in the network, using a light Mafia theme, a host called The Boss and an exclusive slot named The Spinfather. That made it visually distinct from its sister sites, but it closed to British customers with the rest of the In Touch portfolio in 2023.

Dr Slot

Dr Slot logo Dr Slot launched with only eight exclusive games in 2018, yet won Best New Slots Site at the 2019 WhichBingo Awards. Its small, in-house catalogue was the point of difference rather than a weakness. Like the other In Touch brands, it is no longer a UK-licensed option.

mFortune

mFortune logo mFortune was the original In Touch casino, launching in 2007 with four games and providing the model for every brand that followed. Its importance is historical rather than current: In Touch Games surrendered its British licence in September 2023, and mFortune should not now be treated as a licensed UK alternative.

Full list of former In Touch Games casinos

  • Bonus Boss (Closed)
  • Cashmo (Closed)
  • Casino 2020 (Closed)
  • Dr Slot (Closed)
  • Jammy Monkey (Closed)
  • mFortune (Closed)
  • Mr Spin (Closed)
  • PocketWin (Closed)
  • Slot Factory (Closed)