Where the numbers come from
RTP, volatility, maximum win, layout and features come from the provider’s own game page or the game’s paytable first. If those don’t publish a figure, we use a licensed casino’s game page or a provider press release. Every value links to the page we read it on and shows the date we checked it.
Many games ship with several RTP settings, and the casino chooses one. We list every RTP the provider publishes. In the monthly numbers, each game counts once, at its highest published RTP.
If two sources disagree, we show both. If nothing is published, we write “not published” instead of estimating, and we don’t copy figures from review or aggregator sites.
How new games are found
Every Monday a script checks provider newsrooms, provider game pages and US new-slot listings for new and announced games. Each one becomes a draft entry with the pages it came from.
What a US sighting means
Every day the script also checks the lobbies of licensed US online casinos and operator press releases. A sighting means we saw the game listed there, and records the state, the casino and the date. It shows where a game has been seen, not every casino that carries it, because lobbies change often.
Dates
A game goes in the calendar on the date it was first seen in the US. If it hasn’t reached a US lobby yet, it goes in on its release date. A game announced without a confirmed date sits in the coming-soon list until a date is published.
The editor’s check
Nothing the script finds is published on its own. An editor opens the evidence for each new entry, confirms every value against its source and only then adds it to the calendar. Entries that can’t be confirmed are held back.
Write-ups and news
Game write-ups and news stories are written by the BNCG editors from primary sources: the provider’s game page or announcement, the casino’s own release, or the regulator or statute for law stories. Each one lists its sources at the end. We don’t use review sites as sources.
State law
The legal tracker shows a state as live, banned or restricted only after we have read the law or the regulator’s own page. Otherwise it says “Not confirmed”. Each status shows the date we last checked it, and we recheck every state each month.
Monthly numbers
Each month’s data page counts the games in the calendar for that month. The numbers for a month are final once the month closes. A game with no published RTP counts as a release but not towards the RTP figures.