Black Friday, the day that follows the US tradition of Thanksgiving, is typically a day of ridiculous savings and crazy retail promotions in America. Director of programming for Xbox LIVE Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has announced a raft of deals on Xbox LIVE available until November 29th US time, and it seems they're available to us here in New Zealand too!

Among the deals on offer are Portal: Still Alive for a mere 400 MS points (that's 67% off), Mega Man 10 for half price at 400 MS points, Alan Wake DLC The Signal for 320 MS Points and Splinter Cell: Conviction's Deniable Ops: Insurgency Pack for half price at 400 MS points.

A host of avatar items are also available at half price.

Major Nelson also mentions that if you swing by his blog on Friday (Saturday our time) that he'll have another post full of one-day-only savings of up to 80%.