While many online casinos have partnerships with at least one of the software developers listed above, there are some that develop their own software. When companies choose to create their own games, it’s called ‘proprietary software’, and some big name operators like PartyGaming and 888 take this route.

The major advantage to playing on a site with proprietary software is that you will always find unique games. Most gaming software developers will provide the same software to many different online casinos. Sometimes, you will find dozens or even hundreds of online gambling websites that have exact copies of the same games. Websites with proprietary software give users a truly unique experience.

However, proprietary software is not without its faults, as it can sometimes have questionable security causing many customers to believe it is unreliable. For example Absolute Poker, a site which utilizes proprietary software, has recently come clean about having cheated some of its customers. While incidents like this are rare, they do, indeed, occur. Another problem with proprietary software is that sometimes websites that create their own software suffer from low player volume. With games like online poker, websites thrive off of a high player attendance but with proprietary software they sometimes cannot boast the same non-stop action that online casinos with 3rd party software can.