Stake’s Exclusive Game Studios Spin Off as New Supplier Juice

For years, the slots and instant games behind some of crypto casino Stake.com’s biggest turnover figures were locked to that one site. That’s changed: five of the studios that built those exclusives have combined into a single new supplier called Juice, and its back catalogue is now up for grabs by any operator willing to take it on.

What’s been released

Juice launched this week as a business-to-business games provider built from five previously Stake-exclusive studios: Twist Gaming, Knucklehead Syndicate, Monstrums, Massive Studios and The Originals.
The studios behind Stake.com’s exclusive games have spun off as Juice, a B2B iGaming provider officially launching today while opening their entire catalogue to every operator for the first time.
Between them the studios bring a catalogue of over 100 titles built up over several years of exclusive supply.

The new company is
a new Melbourne-headquartered studio that will leverage the collective strengths of all of the teams comprising it
, and it’s led by founder and chief executive Brais Pena Sanchez, who
is a member of Stake’s founding team and former chief strategy officer of Easygo, the group behind Stake and KICK
.
He joined Easygo as its fifth employee and held positions including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer.

The scale of what’s changing hands is notable.
As exclusives, the studios’ games have generated more than US$12 billion in turnover and have been played by some of the world’s biggest high rollers, streamers and celebrities.
Crypto operator Roobet has already gone live with the content, becoming the first outside brand to carry the full catalogue.

How it plays

Rather than splitting operators across five separate technical relationships, Juice is bundling everything through one pipe.
The full portfolio is delivered through a single remote game server integration, so operators get every studio through one integration and one commercial relationship.
That’s a meaningful shift from the usual pattern of studios signing bilateral deals with each brand individually.

Each studio keeps its own identity within the group.
Twist Gaming and Massive Studios, the brains behind many of Stake’s most-played exclusive slots, anchor the portfolio with titles including Drac’s Stacks, Bank Basher and the Rooster series.

Knucklehead Syndicate, launched within the past year, produces boundary-pushing slots.

The Originals is dedicated to the house games – dice, mines and the other simple formats every crypto casino player knows while Monstrums develops emerging verticals: Mystery Boxes, in which players open boxes for real-world prizes from cars to consoles and more.

The output pace is being pitched as one of the group’s selling points.
Every week, Juice will release new titles. These will include one top-tier slot, two Originals-style house games, new mystery boxes and financial-style games.

Where it fits

Juice’s launch content sits squarely in the crypto casino world for now, with Stake and Roobet as the first live partners rather than any UK-licensed brand. But the group isn’t ruling out a wider footprint:
Juice is also already working towards launching in regulated markets.
Given how often studios that cut their teeth on crypto platforms have gone on to seek UKGC certification once their catalogue matures, it’s a name worth filing away even if none of its games are available to UK players yet.

For an industry used to seeing single studios spin out from bigger operators, the scale here stands out.
The fact that Juice will produce games for other studios as well is big news for the gaming industry
, and with a $12 billion exclusive track record behind it, Juice arrives with more proven pull than most debutant suppliers ever manage on day one.

Sources

• NEXT.io – Stake game studios spin out as new B2B provider Juice
• iGB – Introducing Juice: global iGaming provider and the studio behind Stake Exclusive launches worldwide
• InterGame – Stake-exclusive igaming suppliers spin off as Juice
• Gambling News – Five Developers of Stake-Exclusive Games Fuse into Juice, a New Provider
• iGamingToday – Introducing Juice: Global iGaming provider and the studio behind Stake Exclusive launches worldwide