Comfortable with your system’s cursor speed? Give Cursor Invisible a shot. It’s a very simple flash game: shoot any of three targets with your a mouse click. There’s a very simple catch: you aren’t given any indication of your cursor’s position until after you click. If you’re like me and leave your mouse speed settings alone most of the time, it can be pretty easy at first. On my third try I managed to hit 142 in a row.

The other night I was exposed to a lovely little web game called Stick Remover. The instructions are in Japanese, but the controls are super easy. Use your mouse to remove support beams from a structure that suspends a star above the red line. Every time you remove a structure, you risk dropping the star too low. When you’re satisfied that you’d removed as many support beams as you can, click “next” on the upper right.

Five levels of fun. I scored 131, how ’bout you?

Blizzard Entertainment has finally caved in to the inevitable, and in a bid to preempt military action by a rabid South Korean fanbase have announce that Starcraft II is far enough into development for a web launch.

Back in the stone age when the original Starcraft came out, my coworkers and I would stay late after work for multiplayer games, eschewing Battlenet and its uber-teenagers. I never cared for the Protoss and their rather impressive end-game abilities, preferring to get the fight started relatively early on. Sometimes this resulted in accusations of “Zerg Rush” cheapness, but really it’s just part of the game; I could never mount a credible defense against a well-built carrier force.

I look forward to seeing what they’re doing with the Terran and Zerg units. Blizzard apparently wants to trickle new information out on a per-faction basis, starting with my least favorite. I can wait, though.