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G a m i n g N e ws W e d n e s d a y, O c to b e r 1 , 2 0 1 4 4 Lee M. Oser CEO and Editor-in-Chief Kim Forrester Paul Harris Associate Publishers Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director Jeanie Catron Dave Bernard JoEllen Lowry Associate Editors Yasmine Brown Vicky Glover Graphic Designers Ruth Haltiwanger Caitlyn Roach Customer Service Managers Lynn Hilton Alex Louttit Marcos Morhaim James Stewart Account Executives Enrico Cecchi European Sales Gaming News is published by Oser Communications Group ©2014 All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 www.oser.com European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy. AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH G2E MULTIMEDIA GAMES HOSTING NATIONAL TOURNEVENT OF CHAMPIONS On October 1, 2014, one lucky player will be crowned the Nation's Best Slot Tournament Player and win the $200,000 grand prize at the National TournEvent of Champions ® Championship in Las Vegas. Multimedia Games is hosting the National TournEvent of Champions in collaboration with casinos across the country to see who has the slot skills to take home Ultimate Glory and bragging rights as the nation's best. Qualifying rounds ran through September with a total of 123 slot players from 100 casinos scheduled to compete for the National Championship and a share of $500,000 at the Wynn's XS Nightclub in Las Vegas on October 1, 2014. That night will also kick off the countdown to the Million Dollar Event in 2015, when National TournEvent of Champions will award $1 Million to its National Champion on September 30, 2015. "Congratulations to all the winners who've qualified so far," said Multimedia Games CEO Patrick Ramsey. "To make it to the National Championship takes preparation and endurance. These play- ers have certainly shown their spirit through intense competitions and earned the chance to play for the title." The National TournEvent of Champions takes slot tournaments to a whole new level. Two TournEvent of Champions buses are crisscrossing the country from April-September, through 22 states with more than 250,000 players competing for the chance to represent THE FUJITSU GROUP: 'SHAPING TOMORROW WITH YOU' ICT has connected people across the globe and given rise to countless ideas and opportunities. Globalization, which has accelerated with the innovative appli- cation of ICT, has been instrumental in the global economy's threefold expan- sion over the past 20 years. Problems, however, remain. Climate change and natural disasters are growing in severity. Population growth is giving rise to con- cerns about possible shortages of food, water and energy, and there are any num- bers of other linked social problems that have come to light. These threats tell us that we, rather than pursuing profits at the expense of others, should work together toward sustainable, inclusive development. As a global ICT enterprise, the Fujitsu Group actively thinks about its social responsibility to use the power of ICT to contribute to the realization of a sustainable earth and society, and to maintain and strengthen the safety and security of digital society. Through the expansion of the envi- ronments and circumstances in which it is used, and growth in its capabilities, ICT, now, more than a tool for making business more efficient and supporting social infrastructure, stands at the threshold of an era in which it will have enormous power to produce intelligence from massive volumes of data, and drive both change to a better society and improvements in human capabilities. The Fujitsu Group has put forth a medi- um-term vision of a "Human Centric Intelligent Society," in which the poten- tial of everyone will be maximized through ICT, and society will develop along a sustainable path. Working together with others, it will use the power of ICT to create social innovation that will give rise to solutions in the Continued on Page 26 Continued on Page 37