Ray Cox and Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson
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Microsoft honors the player with the most Xbox Live achievement points

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On the eve of its next-generation console launch, Microsoft honored the player with the most achievement points for playing Xbox 360 video games.

On Spike TV, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, started the countdown show for the launch of the Xbox One with a segment on Ray Cox, a gamer with more than 950,000 gamerscore achievement points on the Xbox 360.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.