StarSpins sister sites: the 6 Gamesys sites still trading
StarSpins accounts moved to Bally Bet, on the Gambling Commission licence held by Gamesys Operations Limited, account 38905. StarSpins became MEGAWAYS Casino on 25 February 2021. Accounts untouched for 30 months may be shut, but support reviews every request to re-open one.
Bally Bet's among 6 sister sites Gamesys Operations Limited still runs. Each gives new players free spins once they deposit and play £10, with no wagering on what the spins win. The other 5 are Virgin Games and Jackpotjoy, plus Double Bubble Bingo, Monopoly Casino and Rainbow Riches Casino.
StarSpins' welcome in January 2021, a month before the switch, handed new players 30 free spins once they'd paid in and played £10. 4 sisters still run a similar one.
| Site | Welcome for £10 deposited and played | Wagering, in pounds | Licence, 30 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarSpins | None since 25 February 2021, when it became MEGAWAYS Casino | No offer left to bet through | Gamesys, account 38905, until 25 February 2021 |
| Bally Bet Sports & Casino | 30 free spins on Eye Of Horus Legacy Of Gold, or 3 sports free bets of £10 | None on spin winnings. £3 of spins | Gamesys, Active |
| Double Bubble Bingo | 30 free spins on Double Bubble Cash Wall, or 25 bingo tickets worth up to £25 | None on spin winnings. £3 of spins | Gamesys, Active |
| Jackpotjoy | 100 free spins on Fishin Frenzy The Big Catch 2, or 30 bingo tickets worth up to £30 | None on spin winnings. £10 of spins | Gamesys, Active |
| Monopoly Casino | 30 free spins on MONOPOLY Cash Is King, or 2 sports free bets of £10 | None on spin winnings. £3 of spins | Gamesys, White Label |
| Rainbow Riches Casino | 30 free spins on Rainbow Riches Pick N Mix | None on spin winnings. £3 of spins | Gamesys, White Label |
| Virgin Games | 100 free spins on Game of Thrones | None on winnings, says the offer page. £10 of spins | Gamesys, White Label |
Only new players aged 18+ can claim a welcome, and you choose yours before the first deposit, which locks the choice in. Then you pay in £10 and stake £10 in cash, on slots for spins, bingo for tickets or sport for free bets. None of the StarSpins sister sites has a no-deposit bonus as its welcome: each one needs that £10 deposit. The 6 sites' withdrawal help pages (30 September 2026) put payout processing at 4 to 24 hours from your request.
The deadlines and limits depend on which welcome you pick:
- Spins: rules at 4 of the 6 allow 30 days after your first deposit for qualifying, and a further 30 for using the spins. Monopoly Casino and Virgin Games each printed 2 start dates for that window on 30 September 2026: registration and first deposit. Ask support which one counts before you pay in. Jackpotjoy's 100 spins also need sign-up through the offer's own registration link.
- Bingo tickets: earned and played inside 30 days of opting in and depositing, and never on Session Bingo. Each game's ticket limits and schedule decide how much of the top value you can use.
- Sports free bets: qualifying bets need a price of 1/2 or bigger and have to settle inside 30 days of your first deposit. Boosted, bonus-funded, cashed-out or void bets don't count. Each £10 token lasts 30 days from being credited, can't be withdrawn, goes on its own bet slip and pays any winnings without the stake.
Counted in pounds, a set of 30 spins at 10p each comes to £3 of play. A set of 100 makes £10. Say there's £8 left from your £10 of qualifying slot play, and the 30 spins then land you another £4.50. That's a £12.50 balance, over the £10 withdrawal minimum, and you don't have anything to bet through first.
If the most spins for £10 matters most, the best StarSpins sister sites are Jackpotjoy and Virgin Games, with 100 spins each. Virgin's spins only play on Game of Thrones.
If StarSpins' old welcome is what you miss, Double Bubble Bingo is the closest match among the sites like StarSpins. Its 30 spins are on Double Bubble Cash Wall, and Double Bubble was one of the 2 slots StarSpins' own welcome spins could be played on. You'd get 30 spins where Jackpotjoy gives 100, and the Double Bubble Bingo sister sites page covers its bingo side.
If sport matters most: Bally Bet, where a £10 qualifying bet earns 3 free bet tokens, 1 more than Monopoly Casino gives. 2 of Bally's 3 are tied to a Bet Builder and an accumulator, each needing 3 or more legs and total odds of evens or longer. At evens, a winning token pays you £10, half the £20 that a £10 cash bet would bring back.
What happened to StarSpins, and when did it close?
You may remember StarSpins' own tagline, the home of online slots: it had more than 400 of them, run by Gamesys Operations Limited from Gibraltar. It wasn't shut down so much as rebranded. The licence it used now covers all 6 sisters, 3 of them as White Labels Gamesys runs with a partner.
| Date | What changed | Where it's recorded |
|---|---|---|
| January 2021 | StarSpins trades, with 30 free spins for £10 played | Its homepage, archived 25 January 2021 |
| 25 February 2021 | Logins, balances and payment methods move to MEGAWAYS Casino, "formerly known as Starspins" | The notice left on the StarSpins address, archived October 2021. Trade press reported MEGAWAYS Casino's launch on 23 February 2021 |
| October 2022 to March 2023 | starspins.com forwards visitors to megawayscasino.com | Archive copies of 6 October 2022 and 26 March 2023 |
| 14 to 18 September 2023 | Bally Casino replaces MEGAWAYS Casino, and megawayscasino.com logins end on 18 September | Bally's press release of 14 September 2023 and Bally Bet's own FAQ |
| 24 March 2026 | SkillOnNet, a different company, relaunches the Megaways Casino name | Trade press |
| 30 September 2026 | starspins.com shows no website, though the domain stays registered until 4 July 2027 | DNS and registry records |
Can you still log in to an old StarSpins account?
Yes, at Bally Bet. In 2021 these moved with your account:
- your balance and payment methods
- any StarSpins promotions you'd already started
- your favourite games
- your account settings, responsible gambling tools included
In September 2023 those accounts went on to ballycasino.co.uk, the address where Bally Bet trades today. Does its sign-up form say your email address already exists? Bally Bet's help pages put that down to a moved MEGAWAYS account, which your existing details should open.
There's a time limit, though. Bally Bet's terms allow it to shut an account that has gone 30 months without a transaction, sending any balance to your last known payment details.
That move was on 18 September 2023, so by 30 September 2026 over 36 months had passed. An account that's sat untouched since may already be shut. Support answers 24/7 and reviews every request to re-open a closed account. Don't give up on a balance without asking.
If something's gone wrong with an old balance or a closure, Bally Bet's complaint process has 3 steps:
- Ask Customer Support. If that does not fix it, the Complaints Team has 5 working days to reply.
- Escalate to the Managing Director's Office at Gamesys Operations Limited, whose reply comes within 10 working days, with the whole process aimed at 8 weeks.
- Take it to eCOGRA, which Bally Bet names as its approved dispute service for residents of Great Britain.
How do withdrawals work at the StarSpins sister sites?
The 6 StarSpins casino sister sites print near-identical withdrawal help pages, so these rules apply at whichever one you use. You can cash out when these hold:
- over £10 sits in your balance with no wagering attached
- any identity checks you've been asked for are complete
- you're paid back to whichever method funded your latest deposit
If you pay in by card or Apple Pay, payouts can be £10 to £25,000. Google Pay depositors get paid by bank transfer instead, up to £250,000 a time. Here's how long each method takes.
| Payout method | Processing | Then reaches you |
|---|---|---|
| Visa Debit | 4 to 24 hours | Within 4 hours by Visa Direct, otherwise up to 3 working days |
| Mastercard Debit | 4 to 24 hours | Up to 1 working day |
| Bank account | 4 to 24 hours | Up to 1 working day |
| Apple Pay | 4 to 24 hours | Normally within 24 hours |
Going by the times those pages give, a Visa Direct payout takes up to 28 hours after you ask. That's a processing wait of up to 24 hours, plus up to 4 in transit, once any identity checks are done. You can't cancel it once requested. Bank holidays can slow card and bank payouts, which the pages say still clear no later than 3 working days after processing.
Is Megaways Casino still a StarSpins sister site?
It's someone else's casino now. Its footer credits Skill on Net Ltd, licensed under Gambling Commission account 39326, while its about page gives 2026 as the launch year. You'll find the name twice on the register. It's Inactive without www on Gamesys' account, and Active with www on Skill On Net's.
That makes it a separate casino on another company's licence, not a StarSpins sister. Old accounts didn't come here.
Are the StarSpins sites you find online genuine?
No. StarSpins stopped trading under that name on 25 February 2021. No StarSpins web address appears on the Gambling Commission register, which means a site presenting itself as StarSpins today isn't the Gamesys brand. Some pages in search results still describe StarSpins as an open, UK-licensed casino with a welcome of its own.
A licensed site's footer names the company that runs it, and the register lists that company's web addresses: check both before you deposit anywhere. If a site offers you gambling and doesn't appear to hold a licence, the Gambling Commission asks you to report it. It takes those reports through a confidential page on its website.
What is the Gamesys regulator record?
Gamesys Operations Limited was fined £6,071,292, with a warning, in a Commission ruling of 22 November 2023 on money-laundering and customer-interaction failings. The findings cover November 2021 to July 2022 and name the licence holder, not a brand. For anyone weighing up the Gamesys brands today, the Virgin Games profile goes through the whole case.
Does excluding at one Gamesys site block the rest?
Self-excluding at one Gamesys site shuts your accounts at all 6, for a spell that can't be under 6 months or over 5 years. Until it ends, the terms bar you from every Gamesys Group account, new or old. GAMSTOP goes further. Its block covers any online gambling business holding a British licence, over the same span of lengths.
When your period ends, a GAMSTOP exclusion runs on until you get in touch with GAMSTOP, for up to another 7 years, then it's deactivated. If you've self-excluded, blocking software such as Gamban or BetBlocker blocks gambling sites across the web. GamCare's helpline can help with it too. Going back to an old StarSpins account? Set a spending limit before any deposit, and take a cool-off if you need a pause.
GamCare's advisers answer the National Gambling Helpline round the clock, free and in confidence: 0808 8020 133. You can also message an adviser on WhatsApp or use live chat. Nobody under 18 can play at any of these sites. The responsible gambling page collects more tools, and other licensed groups are in the sister sites directory.
Who was behind StarSpins, and is it on GAMSTOP?
What was the StarSpins welcome bonus? Any StarSpins bonus review is history now: its spins went on Double Bubble or Secrets of the Phoenix at a 1p coin, expiring in 30 days.
Which company was behind StarSpins? Jackpotjoy Operations Ltd owned the StarSpins name and trade mark, and Gamesys Operations Limited used them under licence to run the site. Bally's deal for Gamesys Group was completed on 4 October 2021, while INTRALOT bought Bally's international online business on 10 October 2025.
Is StarSpins still listed with GAMSTOP? Yes: GAMSTOP's list of participating companies still named Starspins and Megaways Casino under Gamesys Operations Limited on 30 September 2026. A GAMSTOP exclusion covers every gambling website licensed in Great Britain. That includes Bally Bet, which runs on account 38905 and now holds those accounts.
Are Heart Bingo, Magical Vegas, Pink Casino and Video Slots StarSpins sister sites? No. Heart Bingo sits with BV Gaming Limited, Magical Vegas with Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited, Pink Casino with LeoVegas Gaming PLC and Video Slots with Videoslots Limited.
Is Star Sports one of the StarSpins sister sites? No: Star Sports' web addresses are on Star Racing Limited's account 9177, a separate licence holder from Gamesys.