One writer, one fact-checking routine, and a public record of what we got wrong. This page sets out who produces the reviews on this site, what we check before publishing a number, and how we are paid.
James MitchellIndependent affiliate siteUpdated 18 September 2026
This is a small independent review site about one brand, Magic Red, written for readers in Great Britain. It is not run by the casino, it is not endorsed by it, and it never was. When you click an offer link here and register, we may be paid a commission — which is exactly why the rest of this page exists in the form it does.
The reason an author page matters on a gambling site is not that a byline makes copy more trustworthy. It does not. What makes a review checkable is that every claim in it points at something you can open yourself: a licence account on the Gambling Commission register, a rule with a date attached, a figure printed in a game's own info panel. Where we could not get to a source like that, the honest move is to say the check failed rather than to fill the gap. You will find several places on this site where we have done that, including the awkward ones — we cannot tell you which bingo network Magic Red used, and we will not guess.
The people behind the pages
Two roles, one of them a named person. We are not going to inflate a small operation into a masthead.
James Mitchell
Casino Gaming Expert · writes and maintains every page here
Writes the reviews, runs the register checks and owns the corrections. The work is deliberately narrow: UK licensing and what it obliges an operator to do, cashier mechanics and KYC, published RTP and how volatility behaves around it, and the responsible-gambling tools a GB licence requires. Anything outside that — tipping, predictions, strategies that claim to beat a house edge — is not covered here, because none of it survives a check.
Verifies licence claims against the Gambling Commission public register, including the domain-names tab, before publication.
Prices every bonus claim against the rules in force, not against a template.
Publishes the date each fact was last checked, and pins it — no dates generated at page load.
Fact-checking and compliance
An internal desk, not a named byline
Every page is read a second time against a fixed list before it goes live. That pass is about removing things, not adding them: unsourced licence numbers, certification logos nobody can evidence, support hours nobody published, game counts that came from a template, and any sentence written in the present tense about a brand that has stopped trading.
Checks that no partner URL appears in the page source — offer links run through a single function so the destination lives in one file.
Checks that external links carry rel="nofollow noopener" and that internal links do not open new tabs.
Checks 18+ and responsible-gambling signposting is present on every page, not just the homepage.
How we correct mistakes
We publish numbers about money and licensing, so some of them will be wrong eventually — a licence lapses, a rule changes, an operator quietly drops a payment method. The policy is boring by design.
Step 1
Someone spots it
A reader email, a routine re-check, or a regulator page that no longer matches what we published.
Step 2
We go back to the primary source
The register entry, the rule, the operator document. Not another review site, and not a search summary.
Step 3
The claim is fixed or removed
If the source now says something different, we change it. If no source can be found at all, the claim comes out entirely rather than being softened.
Step 4
The change is dated and, where it matters, disclosed
The verified date at the foot of the page moves, and a material change is recorded openly — see the ledger further down this page and on the bingo page.
What we do not do: quietly edit a figure and leave the old publication date in place, or remove an embarrassing claim without saying it was there. If a page carried a wrong licence number for months, deleting it silently is not a correction, it is tidying up.
Scoring criteria and their weights
Where this site gives an opinion rather than a fact, it comes from the weighting below. The weights are ours and they are arguable — publishing them is the point, so you can discount the ones you disagree with.
Licensing and who actually holds it30%
Which account, which licensee company, which activities, and whether the domain you are on is listed as active. A brand can hold a live licence and still be dead — that distinction alone carries the largest single weight here.
Cashier and payouts20%
Deposit and withdrawal floors, the rails offered, how long a payout takes, and whether KYC is front-loaded or sprung on you at withdrawal.
Bonus terms as priced today15%
Wagering multiple, game weighting, maximum stake with bonus funds, any cap on winnings from bonus money. Priced against the rules in force, not the rules when the template was written.
Player protection15%
Deposit, loss and session limits, reality checks, time-out and self-exclusion, and whether the operator is in GAMSTOP.
Game library and published returns10%
Studios actually present, live floor provider, and whether RTP is disclosed per game rather than advertised as an average.
Support that can be evidenced10%
Real contact routes and real opening hours. An unsourced "24/7" scores nothing.
You will notice there is no weight for design, app quality or “atmosphere”. Those change nothing about whether you get paid.
The verification protocol
The same seven checks run before any page here is published or re-dated.
Check
What it involves
1. Licence account
Operator name searched on the Gambling Commission public register; the account number, licensee company and activity dates are read from the entry itself.
2. Domain status
The domain-names tab for that account is opened and the specific site checked. This is the check most review sites skip, and it is the one that caught this brand.
3. Rules in force
Every bonus or stake figure is tested against the rule and date that applies — the 10x wagering cap from 19 January 2026, the £5 and £2 slot stake caps from April and May 2025, the credit-card ban from April 2020.
4. First-party documents
Operator terms, cashier pages and support pages where they are reachable. Where they are not, the page says so in plain words.
5. Third-party agreement
Where no first-party source survives, we look for agreement across independent sources and label the result as consensus, not as fact from the operator.
6. Look-alikes
Domains using the brand name are checked against the register and against their own footers. One clone of this brand names a Curaçao company in its footer; it is not the licensed operation.
7. Strip the template
A final pass removes anything inherited rather than verified — certification logos, phone numbers, game counts, "24/7".
Affiliate disclosure
How this site is paid. Links marked as offers are affiliate links. If you click one, register and deposit, we may receive a commission from the operator or its affiliate programme. You pay nothing extra, and the terms you get are the same as if you had arrived directly.
What that money does not buy. It does not buy a score, a position, or the removal of an inconvenient fact. The clearest evidence of that is this site itself: the pages you are reading state plainly that the brand in the domain name stopped trading in Great Britain on 30 June 2026 and that every domain on its licence account is listed as Inactive. That is not a commercially convenient thing to publish. It is what the register says.
What we are not. Not the operator, not affiliated with it, not a regulator, and not a complaints service. If you have a dispute with a gambling company, raise it with the operator first and then with a UKGC-approved alternative dispute resolution provider — our security page sets out that route.
What changed after the last check
A condensed version of the site-wide ledger. Each row is something an earlier template asserted and the September 2026 checks removed or replaced.
Before
After
Why
“UKGC licence 62247”
“UKGC account 39483, AG Communications Limited”
The old number returns 410 Gone on the register; 39483 is the real account.
An MGA licence number
No MGA claim at all
No MGA number for this brand is publicly verifiable, so none is published.
“£4,000 + 250 free spins, 35x”
No amount quoted; terms described in general
The amount was never sourced, and 35x has been impossible on a GB promotion since 19 January 2026.
eCOGRA and iTech Labs badges
Removed
No source names either testing house in connection with this brand.
“24/7 support” and a UK phone number
Chat or email, seven days, 06:00–23:00 GMT
The hours are the only ones ever published; the phone number was invented by the template.
Neteller listed as a payment method
Removed; Apple Pay listed instead
No independent source listed Neteller for this brand.
“3,000+ games” and similar counts
No count published
Counts were template values and the lobby no longer exists to count.
Present-tense “join today” copy
Closure stated on every relevant page
The brand stopped trading in Great Britain on 30 June 2026.
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The licence test across five UK brands
The single check in criterion one, applied to five brands a British reader might be comparing. This is a snapshot taken on 18 September 2026 from the Gambling Commission public register — entries change, so treat it as a demonstration of the method rather than a standing list, and run the check yourself before you deposit anywhere.
Brand
Licensee on the register
UKGC account
What the account shows
Magic Red
AG Communications Limited
39483
Licences active; every domain on the account, magicred.com included, listed as Inactive. Brand closed to GB players 30 June 2026.
CasinoLuck
Aspire Global International LTD / AG Communications Limited
39483
The same account as Magic Red — a genuine sister brand by the only test that settles it, a shared licence.
888 Casino
888 UK Limited
39028
A separate licensee with its own account; 777 Casino sits on the same group.
William Hill
WHG (International) Limited
39225
A separate licensee and one of the older GB remote accounts.
Grosvenor Casinos
Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Ltd
57924
The online licence sits with Rank Interactive; the land-based clubs run on a different account entirely.
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What the table is really showing is how little a brand name tells you. Two of these five sit on one licence account and were marketed as unrelated casinos. One of them is closed while its licence is still listed as active. The register is the only place any of that is visible.
Contact
Corrections are welcome and they are the fastest way to improve a page. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us what it is and where you checked — a link to a register entry or a rule beats an assertion, and it gets fixed the same way we would fix our own error.
GAMSTOP blocks every GB-licensed gambling site at once and is free. We have no commercial relationship with any of these organisations.
Read next
Our about page covers the operator and its licence history in full, security explains what a GB licence obliges an operator to do and how a complaint escalates, and the bingo page carries the fullest worked example of the checks described above.
