Is ArionPlay Legit in the Philippines? PAGCOR Register Check

Is ArionPlay Legit in the Philippines? PAGCOR Register Check

ArionPlay is on PAGCOR's register of accredited gaming system administrators dated 20 August 2026, at entry No. 37 — but not under its own name. It is listed as a Sub Brand of Fairplay, under NEMO INTERACTIVE GROUP CORPORATION. We have not reviewed the platform. This page covers what that row says and how to check it.

The "not under its own name" part is the whole problem. Someone who opens the PDF, presses Ctrl-F, types the brand and then reads only the Main Brand column will walk away thinking it is unlisted. It is listed. It is simply three columns to the right of where most people look.

Everything below was checked on 7 September 2026. We pulled the register from pagcor.ph that morning and compared it against our 20 August download: identical files, same MD5, 628,654 bytes. Then we enlarged the entry No. 37 row six times over and read it cell by cell instead of trusting the PDF text layer.

Entry No. 37, Exactly as Printed

Five addresses. That is the complete approved set for this company: one main domain, four listed under Sub-domain, and an Additional URL cell left empty. Plenty of rows on this register run to dozens of strings. This one does not, which makes it unusually easy to check and unusually easy to fall outside.

The word ArionPlay appears exactly twice in the whole fourteen-page document — once in that Sub Brand cell, once inside arionplay.com. The word Arion never appears on its own anywhere.

Three Official-Looking Surfaces, Three Different Names

Here is the check that goes wrong with this brand specifically.

The company's own corporate site returned HTTP 200 on 7 September 2026 and gives its full name as Novus Entertainment and Management Operations Interactive Group, with an office in Legaspi Village, Makati City. It markets exactly one online platform: FairPlay. The names ArionPlay, PeryaPlay, LuckyPlay and XoPlay appear on that site zero times each, and its footer still reads Copyright 2023. A reader who starts from the parent company cannot reach the sub-brand at all.

Then the terms of service on the ArionPlay site itself, which we read out of the page's JavaScript bundle rather than a summary of it, open by naming "the Website operated by NEMO INTERACTIVE GROUP (NEMO), doing business as PERYAPLAY Remote Gaming Platform (RGP)". The word Fairplay appears in that bundle zero times, against 29 mentions of NEMO.

So the screen says ArionPlay, the terms say PeryaPlay, the register says Fairplay, and one company sits behind all three. None of that is contradictory once you know how the register is built — a licence attaches to a company, and a company can run several front-end brands from it. But if your test is "does the name on the page match the name on the list", this brand fails a test it should pass.

For corroboration outside the PDF: GMA News Online, reporting on 8 August 2025 on the formation of the PlaySafe alliance of licensed operators, printed the membership list with the line "NEMO Interactive Group Corporation (Fairplay, Arionplay)" in it. The pairing is on the record in a national newsroom, not only in a regulator's spreadsheet cell.

The Domain Ending That Breaks the Family Pattern

Three of the four sub-brands are registered on .ph: peryaplay.ph, Luckyplay.ph, xoplay.ph. ArionPlay is the exception. The register lists arionplay.com.

Which means the address a Filipino player would guess first is the one that was never approved. We looked it up. The .ph version of the name does resolve, returns HTTP 200, and forwards to a third-party tracking chain on an unrelated host, where the only readable text is a privacy opt-out line. It is on neither register.

It gets more specific than that. PAGCOR's older service-provider list, still published on pagcor.ph today, prints a fourth address for this company in the form fairplay.com.ph. That string does not appear on the 20 August 2026 register at all. When we opened it, it forwarded to the same style of monetised chain — and its DNS A record, 172.93.103.99, is the same address serving the unapproved .ph spelling of ArionPlay. Two names that look official, one of them printed on a live PAGCOR document, both currently pointing at the same third-party redirect infrastructure.

The approved arionplay.com behaved differently: HTTP 200 from our connection, served through Cloudflare, a working single-page app whose title reads "ArionPlay - PAGCOR Licensed Online Casino Philippines". We are not linking it, and a site calling itself licensed proves nothing by itself. That sentence is one line of HTML, and anyone can type it.

"Arion Plus" Is on No PAGCOR List at All

This is why the page exists in this form. Over the twelve months to 6 September 2026, Philippine search interest in the word arion scored 98 on a scale where online casino sits at 100, and the second half of the year ran 418 percent ahead of the first — the steepest rise of any Philippine casino brand term in our own Trends run. The weekly readings sat between 9 and 15 for roughly the first twenty-two weeks, then climbed almost without interruption to a peak of 100.

And the query that appears most often beside arion, ahead of the word casino itself, is arion plus.

We searched both registers for that spelling. Written solid or with a space, it returns zero matches in either document. The register knows ArionPlay. It has never heard of Arion Plus.

What sits under that spelling online, described rather than linked: the .com belongs to an unrelated consulting firm with nothing to do with gambling, and on two other endings we found casino-styled pages built around Philippine sports and slots, with register and login prompts, on which the word PAGCOR appears zero times and neither NEMO nor Fairplay is named anywhere. We also found five unapproved variants of the ArionPlay spelling itself, on five different endings, four of them dressed as casinos. We are describing the shape of this layer rather than handing over addresses. Separately, PAGCOR's list of accredited gaming affiliates, also dated 20 August 2026, contains no mention of this brand or company — so none of those pages is an accredited affiliate either.

Three PAGCOR Files, Three Different Row Numbers

Pages written about this brand quote a "PAGCOR Brand No." as though it were a licence number, and we found two different numbers in circulation. Both are wrong in the same way. There is no Brand No. field on any of these documents. The only number is the row, and the row moves.

Same company, three PAGCOR files, all of them loading on 7 September 2026:

The 2024 file is worth a second look for a different reason: it lists Arionplay as a brand outright, not as a sub-brand, and it carries that extra fairplay.com.ph address the current register has dropped. A number quoted without the document and the date behind it is not a credential — it is a row index from whichever revision the writer happened to open. Read the as-of date at the top before you rely on any line underneath it.

The Check That Actually Works: the Publisher Line

App stores verify one thing reliably, and it is not the app name. On 7 September 2026 the Philippine App Store carried a single app under this brand, and the seller field reads NEMO INTERACTIVE GROUP CORPORATION, character for character the company on entry No. 37. It is the only app on that developer account. First released 26 November 2025, current build dated 17 June 2026, rated 17+.

Note which way round that runs. The sub-brand has the app; the registered Main Brand does not. A Philippine store search for Fairplay returned eleven results, none of them published by this company.

Google Play pointed the other way. A Philippine-storefront search for the brand name returned no listing carrying it, and the company name appears zero times on the results page we fetched. We pulled that page without running its JavaScript, so read it as an indication rather than proof of absence.

The rule that survives all of this is short: read the publisher line, not the app name, and compare it against the company on the register row. The iOS app's internal identifier contains a word belonging to neither brand — a reminder that internal strings are developer housekeeping and prove nothing in either direction.

What Entry No. 37 Does Not Tell You

Being on the register is not a recommendation, and we are not making one. The row answers a narrow question: whether this company and these five addresses were approved as of 20 August 2026.

It says nothing about withdrawals, verification or bonus terms. We have not deposited, have not withdrawn, and have not mined forum threads for second-hand conclusions. A page that has not tested a cash-out cannot tell you how the cash-out behaves, and this page has not.

Our own reach was limited too, and it matters here. We tested from outside the Philippines. The main domain fairplay.ph returned HTTP 403 with a body that echoed our own country code straight back at us, which reads like a deliberate geo-block rather than an outage. Two of the sub-domains returned Cloudflare block pages. We cannot tell you what any of those addresses show to somebody sitting in Manila.

Not found, separately: any PAGCOR advisory naming ArionPlay, Fairplay or NEMO-IG. Not found is not the same as does not exist, because searching a public website is not the same as searching a regulator's files. We found no licence number in the terms text we retrieved, and we are not repeating the numbers that circulate elsewhere.

PAGCOR's own warning of 28 December 2022 states the rule in a single line: "Any link that is not posted in the PAGCOR website (www.pagcor.ph) is considered illegal."

Check It Yourself in Four Minutes

Do not take our word for it. The full method, traps included, is in our two reference guides: confirming a PAGCOR-licensed casino and what the fake PAGCOR seal is actually doing. Condensed to four steps:

1. 1.Copy the address out of the browser bar, ending included, and ignore the logo.
2. 2.Open the register from PAGCOR's Electronic Gaming Licensing Department page, and read the as-of date before anything else.
3. 3.Search your string, then read the whole row across — Main Brand, Root Word, Sub Brand, Main Domain, Sub-domain, Additional URL. A brand can sit four columns from where your eye lands.
4. 4.If the row carries a different company name than the site does, that is normal for a sub-brand. What matters is whether your exact address is printed somewhere in that row.

The five operators we have actually reviewed and can speak about are BingoPlus, ArenaPlus, OKBet, Solaire Online and GGPoker.ph. ArionPlay is not among them, and we are not sending you to it.

If You Already Deposited on an Address You Cannot Find

Stop adding money until the address itself checks out. Then screenshot what is still on screen: the full address from the browser bar, the account name, the reference number on every transfer. Once a page stops loading, the proof of what it said goes with it.

Open your GCash or Maya history next and look at who actually received the peso amounts. A merchant name you can trace to a company is a different situation from a personal wallet, and that one line usually settles which situation you are in.

For online scam reports, the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center runs a toll-free line on 1326. Its website sat behind a challenge page and returned HTTP 403 when we tried it on 7 September 2026, so the number is what we are giving you rather than a link we could not open ourselves. Where the issue is a site trading on PAGCOR accreditation it does not hold, the reporting channels are published on pagcor.ph.

Only players aged 21 and over may gamble in the Philippines, and PAGCOR publishes (02) 8248-9568 on its responsible gaming page. If the thing you actually want to check is your own playing rather than a website, our guide to self-exclusion and the PAGCOR NDRP sets out the formal route, and our responsible gambling page lists the local support options. Checking a licence settles exactly one of your questions. The money you should not have staked in the first place is a different question, and no register touches it.

Sources — all checked 7 September 2026

• PAGCOR — Electronic Gaming Licensing Department, where these lists live
• PAGCOR — Accredited Gaming System Administrators and Registered Brands and Domain Names/URLs, 20 August 2026, entry No. 37
• PAGCOR — Registered Brand and Domain Names/URLs of Licensed Casinos, 20 August 2026
• PAGCOR — Gaming System Service Providers, Approved Game Offerings and Registered URLs, 6 August 2024, No. 28
• PAGCOR — Accredited administrators and registered Brand and Sub Brand, 4 December 2025, No. 41
• PAGCOR — Accredited administrators and registered Domain Names/URLs, 4 December 2025, No. 41
• PAGCOR — Accredited Gaming Affiliates, 20 August 2026
• PAGCOR — warning against illegal online gambling sites, 28 December 2022
• PAGCOR — Responsible Gaming
• GMA News Online — Licensed online gaming firms form PlaySafe alliance, 8 August 2025