The Black Friday sale is now live on GOG.com. They are offering over 2600 deals with savings up to 90% off between now and December 1st. Here are some highlights:

We have the best gaming deals with our time-limited Flash Deals for:

• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (-80% until November 28th, 2 PM UTC)
• Hitman: Blood Money (-85% until November 28th, 2 PM UTC)
• Pathologic 2 (-55% until November 28th, 2 PM UTC)
• Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition (-65% until November 28th, 2 PM UTC)
• Praetorians - HD Remaster (-45% until November 28th, 2 PM UTC)
• Tropico 5: Complete Collection (-60% until November 28th, 2 PM UTC)
• Age of Wonders: Planetfall (-75% until November 29th, 2 PM UTC)
• Hollow Knight (-66% until November 29th, 2 PM UTC)
• Pillars of Eternity: Definitive Edition (-85% until November 29th, 2 PM UTC)
• and more coming after these!

WOLCEN Studio announces Wolcen Chronicle I: Bloodtrail is coming soon to Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem (thanks PCGamesN). This will be their first free content update for their action/RPG. Here are the details:

With Chronicle I: Bloodtrail, we also wanted to make a complete reset of the economy. Therefore, characters created before the release of the Chronicle will be moved to a separate Game Mode called Legacy, and they will not be able to interact or trade with characters created after the release of Bloodtrail. They will, however, still be able to interact or trade with the other Legacy characters.

Since the release of the game in February, we have released 17 patches for Wolcen in order to improve balancing, performance, servers, and fix the most common and critical issues. These last months, we’ve been preparing for Chronicle I: Bloodtrail, and although we chose to remain silent, we’ve been listening to your feedback and used them to enhance the game experience and improve the foundations of Wolcen.

This update is only the beginning of a new Wolcen’s journey, and we hope that you will join us for it.

Dawn of the Mexica is now available for Windows and Linux on Steam, offering a historical fantasy turn-based roguelike set south of the US border. The game is set in the Valley of Mexico 500 years ago during Hernán Cortés' conquest of Tenochtitlán. Here's a gameplay trailer and here's more:

It is a complex turn-based tactical role-playing game. It focuses in simulation and a "classic roguelike" style which includes perma-death and procedural generation of every game scenario each time you play.

It includes a dozen character classes, more than one thousand critical attacks with text that may impair the characters' bodies in so many different ways, and a lot of unique characters, items and artifacts. To create these, there's been a deep historical research which includes mythical components of the mexica (azteca) myths.

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In anticipation of the upcoming release of Demon Turf, a playable Windows and Linux trial version of this 3D platformer is now available on Steam. The game's previously released Reveal Trailer offers a look. Word is the trial includes the chance to be included in the final version of the game:

The highly-anticipated 3D platformer Demon Turf is coming soon, but before it does, you can get your pic in the game forever just by topping the leaderboard! Each week, Demon Turf: Trials will release a new mini-level, allowing you to compete against the world in a week long Trail. If you manage to be the best, your image will be ensconced in the game for all to see! And the best part? Demon Turf: Trials is free!

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• Action Pack on Oculus Quest. Save 29%.

• Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - November 23, 2020. Includes a new hero.

Thanks Ant.

• How Microsoft Flight Simulator Recreated Our Entire Planet - Noclip Documentary. Thanks ConsoleGenRL.
• CUPHEAD: FEAR AND LOATHING.
• Black Mesa 1.0 Trailer but with Half-Life SFX.
• The sacred art of the forward roll - Roly Poly.

• Bless Unleashed - Improvements Coming in CBT2 - PC Controls.

• Sony is permanently banning PS5 owners selling access to PlayStation Plus Collection.

• How to fix the M1 Mac’s most disappointing feature- iOS apps on the Mac. Thanks Ant.

• Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• Remote work is here to stay -- but it won't be cheap or easy.
• Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead. Thanks Digg.
• NYT report on chronic racism at Coinbase.
• How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube.
• U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Streaming Among Us Again This Week.

• Plex Media Server version 1.24.0.1483. Thanks ConsoleGenRL.

• Sophos notifies customers of data exposure after database misconfiguration. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• UK infoseccer launches petition asking government not to backdoor encryption.
• Manchester United email servers remain offline amid what is being called a 'ransomware' attack.

• Cheesemaking YouTuber threatened with legal action by Grana Padano after showing people how to make similar cheese.

• Dirt 5 review: Out of the mud - Shacknews.
• Jesus Strikes Back: Judgment Day (REMASTERED) - Christ Centered Gamer.
• Observer System Redux PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming.

• CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER HYPER 212 EVO 2 REVIEW - Modders Inc.
• CPU Cooler: Deepcool AS500 Review - TechPowerUp.
• Graphics Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X Review - TechPowerUp.
• Misc: Corsair iCUE NEXUS Companion Touch Screen Review - TweakTown.
• Router: TP-Link Archer AX6000 Review - APH Networks.
• SSD: Teamgroup MP33 PRO NVMe M2 SSD review - Guru3D.
• SSD: WD_Black AN1500 1TB - LanOC Reviews.
• SSD: XPG SPECTRIX S40G RGB 1TB NVMe SSD Review - Neoseeker.

• TinyBuild invests $3m in Secret Neighbor developer Hologryph…
• Cyberpunk 2077 pre-orders "visibly higher" than any Witcher title - GamesIndustry.biz

Our virtual Thanksgiving worked out pretty smoothly. We had an assortment of relatives dropping in and out of our Zoom call, and it was wonderful to be able to share the occasion with them. MrsBlue's little turkey and all the fixings turned out great. I even finally figured out a proper way to carve the bird by slicing off the breasts and then cutting them the other way, the way you filet a fish. All my previous efforts at this involved trying to slice the breasts the long way, but this worked out infinitely better.

Obituary: R.I.P. Daria Nicolodi.

Well-Sliced Round-up
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Brunch Link

• 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles'- Best Thanksgiving Movie Ever. Thanks Max.

Stories

• Pandemic fears, online deals thin U.S. Black Friday crowds.
• Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name. Thanks Slashdot.
• COVID-19 separation forces SoCal couple to turn their wedding into a true fairy tale.
• Wedding Rings Lost in Shipwreck Will Be Returned to Migrant Couple.

Science
Thanks Max.

• Opinion - Happiness Won’t Save You.
• Discovery of mechanism that switches off fat production after eating.
• Leaf-cutter ants are coated in rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects.
• The African Crested Rat Covers Itself With Poison That Can Take Out an Elephant.

Image

• Here’s What the Thanksgiving Parade Looked Like in Pandemic New York.

Media

• Packaging Guy.
• Architectural Models.

Auction

• A record $1.5 million paid for a Batman comic book at auction.

The Funnies

• The Far Side.
• xkcd: Life Before the Pandemic.