Card Player – The online gambling situation in Greece is becoming increasingly interesting. Late last month, Greece released a list of 401 blacklisted online gaming sites. The names on the list included PartyPoker.com and 888Poker.com. The country is not trying to ban the activity, but instead trying to control where its citizens place their wagers. The situation stems from the state wanting to make sure the Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics S.A (referred to as OPAP), of which it owns about a third of, has exclusive rights to offer web betting within its borders, instead of letting foreign firms on…

iGaming Business – The London Affiliate Conference (LAC), now in its eighth year will be taking place in London on the 6th – 9th February 2014. Conference organisers, iGaming Business, have today announced that the conference will be moving to a new venue for 2014, the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. Last year, the event was a huge success with over 3,000 people in attendance – the biggest London event to date. And this year, to accommodate for the increased number of delegates and exhibitors, the conference has had to move to a bigger venue. Earls Court Exhibition Centre…

Online-Casinos – In Europe and the United Kingdom there is a battle developing between the government of the U.K and online gambling operators located in some offshore jurisdiction that offers their services to punters in the U.K. The government of the United Kingdom has decided that they will impose a new tax regime on operators that offer services to punters there no matter where the operators are located. Currently the U.K. online gambling market is worth over £2 billion a year, and the government wants to bring in another £300 million through the new gambling rules. Operators will have to…

iGaming Business – Nextpeer, an Israeli start-up that specialises in making mobile games multiplayer-enabled, is launching its service for Android devices after a successful debut on the Apple iOS platform. The company’s software development kit allows players to compete directly against friends or random players. “When people think about playing together in mobile games, we want the first thing that goes through their head to be Nextpeer,” Shai Magizmof, the company’s chief executive officer and co-founder, said. The integration process manages push notifications, Facebook challenges, analytics and cross-promotions. In other news, wagering platform Small-Bet has announced a new partnership with…

iGaming Business – Revenues generated by the US digital gaming market increased by 5.4% year-on-year last month, according to a new report from SuperData. The study said that US mobile gaming had rocketed by 32% in revenue year-on-year, with the US digital gaming industry now worth $1.1 billion (€824 million). The increase offset a 12% decrease in digital sales of PC and console games to $271 million. King’s Candy Crush Saga was the top revenue-generator, bringing in $438,000 per day in the month of July. SOURCE

News.com.au – Hotels and sporting clubs have blamed an “explosion” in online betting and the increasing appeal of home theatres for a stark downturn in spending on poker machines. Latest Consumer and Business Services Department figures show South Australian punters lost $731 million on poker machines last financial year, down $60 million from 2006-07 highs. It is the second-lowest result in the past decade and short-changes the State Government of $34 million of tax revenue it was expecting in last year’s Budget forecast. Anti-pokies advocates have also warned the internet is emerging as the new front in the war on…