Extreme Live Gaming: What Happened to the London Studio and Where to Play Now
If you’re looking for the best Extreme Live Gaming casinos, I’ve got bad news and a workaround. The studio was bought by Pragmatic Play in June 2018, the tables were pulled, and no UK casino has carried an Extreme Live Gaming game since. The name still floats around affiliate sites because nobody bothered to update them. Here’s what the company was, where its games went, and which live roulette sites to use if that’s what brought you here.
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Where to play instead: live roulette sites in the UK
Extreme Live Gaming’s studio and staff were absorbed into Pragmatic Play, which opened its own live operation in Bucharest in 2019. The sites below carry Pragmatic Play Live and Evolution tables, which is as close as you’ll get to the successor product. Ratings are ours. Our full list of UK casinos with live roulette has the rest.
None of these have a Book of Ra roulette table. That game didn’t survive the sale. More on it below.
Who Extreme Live Gaming was
Founded in 2013 by Darwyn Palenzuela, first out of Manila, then from a London studio that opened in late 2015. In April 2014 Astra Gaming Group, Novomatic’s UK arm, bought a majority stake, and for four years Extreme Live Gaming was Novomatic’s go at online live casino. The London studio was the only live-dealer studio on British soil at the time, which was its main claim to fame.
By 2018 it ran around ten tables from London: roulette, blackjack, baccarat. Novomatic was pulling back from online that year and sold the lot to Pragmatic Play on 26 June 2018. There was never a formal “we’re closing” announcement; the tables just stopped appearing in lobbies. Not verified beyond that: no live UKGC register entry for the company has been located, and the brand is listed as dormant.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company | Extreme Live Gaming Ltd (dormant brand) |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Owners | Astra / Novomatic (2014–18) → Pragmatic Play (June 2018) |
| Studios | Asia (2014), London (late 2015), both closed |
| Licences held (2018) | UK and Malta (trade press); eCOGRA testing (third-party) |
| UK availability | None since 2018 |
The roulette it made
The portfolio was European roulette dressed up. Golden Ball Roulette, Reel Roulette, Roulette 360, a French table, and the ones people still search for: European wheels with Novomatic slot-brand side bets bolted on. Ra Roulette put a Book of Ra reel next to the wheel; Lucky Lady’s Charm got the same treatment. The studio called it “Extreme Mode”.
The base game was honest: single zero, 35:1, 2.70%. The side bets weren’t. Our records put the slot-reel bets at roughly a 10% edge, which is worse than American roulette’s 5.26% and about four times a plain red/black bet. A novelty, and a genuinely fun one, but a mug’s game to actually stake on. £5 a spin on the Ra side bet for 100 spins would have cost you around £50 in expected loss against £13.50 on the main wheel.
Past tense throughout. These tables are gone.
Extreme Live Gaming slots: there weren’t any
Nearly a third of the searches landing here are for Extreme Live Gaming slots or slot sites. The studio never made a slot. What it made was live roulette with slot-themed side bets, and the slots those side bets borrowed from (Book of Ra, Lucky Lady’s Charm) are Novomatic games, now published online by Greentube. If that’s what you’re after, our Novomatic and Greentube review covers where the brand’s roulette and casino games are today.
Where the games went
Nowhere, mostly. Pragmatic Play didn’t keep the Novomatic side-bet tables; it had no rights to the slot brands once Novomatic was out. Its own live roulette line-up launched from Bucharest in 2019 and later added Mega Roulette with multipliers, which is a different idea entirely (29:1 base, 50x–500x on up to five numbers). Our Pragmatic Play live casino review has the current range.
If what you liked about Extreme Live Gaming was a plain table with a London dealer, Evolution’s Dual Play tables stream from the Hippodrome and The Vic in London, and Immersive Roulette for real money gives you the no-gimmick 35:1 game from Riga.
Pros and cons (historic)
Pros
- The UK’s only live-dealer studio of its era
- Novomatic side-bet tables were a real novelty in 2015–18
- Honest 35:1 on the base wheel
Cons
- Closed since 2018; nothing to play
- Side bets carried roughly 10% edges
- No formal closure notice, which is why outdated “best Extreme Live Gaming casinos” pages still exist
Verdict
A footnote, honestly. Novomatic’s three-year attempt at live casino produced one memorable gimmick and then got sold off. If you’ve found an “Extreme Live Gaming casino” listing anywhere, it’s stale, and the casino it points to is probably running Pragmatic Play or Evolution tables under its own name.
Not rated, because there’s nothing left to rate.
FAQ
Is Extreme Live Gaming still operating?
No. Pragmatic Play bought the company in June 2018 and withdrew the tables. The London studio closed and the brand is dormant. No UKGC-licensed casino has carried its games since.
Which casinos have Extreme Live Gaming games?
None. Any site listing it is out of date. For live roulette from the company that absorbed it, look for Pragmatic Play Live tables; the sites at the top of this page carry them.
Did Extreme Live Gaming make slots?
No. It made live roulette with side bets themed on Novomatic slots such as Book of Ra. The slots themselves are Novomatic/Greentube games and are available at UK sites that carry that provider.
Can I still play Book of Ra roulette?
Not in the UK. The table was Extreme Live Gaming’s and didn’t survive the 2018 sale. Pragmatic Play’s current live roulette range doesn’t include it.
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