Air Dice adds a Greek manufacturer licence, its seventh regulated market

Air Dice holds a Manufacturer A1 Suitability licence from the Hellenic Gaming Commission, numbered HGC-000119-MN. It is a small announcement with a useful detail in it: the licence class tells you what a studio may actually do in Greece, and studios rarely spell that out.

What was announced

The Helsinki studio said on 19 September 2023 that the Hellenic Gaming Commission had granted it a Manufacturer A1 Suitability licence, making Greece its seventh certified jurisdiction. The licence covers its dice, slot, bingo and table games, produced across three studio entities — Air Dice, Dice Crafter and Probability Jones. It named Wandering Devourer and Neon Shifter among the titles heading to the market.

Chief executive Victor Borg Barthet said the accreditation “will see many of our top-performing games hit the Greek market, including our Dice Games which I believe is a regional first”.

What a manufacturer licence permits

Greece separates the people who run gambling from the people who build it. An operator licence lets a company take bets from Greek players. A manufacturer licence lets a supplier produce and supply the software those operators use, once each game has passed certification. Holding the second does not let you do the first, and it does not by itself put any particular game in front of a player — individual titles still have to clear testing.

So the honest reading of this kind of announcement is: the studio may now supply Greek operators, and its catalogue becomes available to them title by title as certification allows.

What our records show

We hold four licences for Air Dice. Three are at our highest tier, confirmed by opening the issuing regulator's own register: a Malta Gaming Authority B2B licence (MGA/B2B/864/2021) and two UK Gambling Commission entries. The Greek licence sits a tier lower in our data, recorded from a published source rather than checked by us on the HGC register.

We record the studio as live in Malta and the United Kingdom. It describes itself as a dice, slot, bingo and table game developer founded in 2005, and it is the dice catalogue — unusual among European studios — that the Greek move is really about.

If you are buying

A seventh jurisdiction is a reasonable signal that a small studio can absorb compliance work without it stopping development. What it does not tell you is how the games perform. For a studio this size the question worth asking is which of its titles are already certified in your market, not how many flags are on the map.