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By Brandon Boyer at 8:56 am Wednesday, Jun 3

Is the opening cinematic to Harmonix's upcoming Beatles: Rock Band (above) the most aggressively, gorgeously surreal videogame intro of all time? I say there's no contest, not even Katamari Damacy's own animalistic rainbow explosion, and it's still my favorite cinematic to come out of the ongoing E3 thus far. Elsewhere on Offworld we wrapped up the day's top two stories: Nintendo's press conference, which went back to basics to appease its core audience with four new Mario games, a new Metroid game, and a new finger-clip hardware interface to help create new games meant to relax the player, and Sony's own press conference, which introduced their own new motion controller, and fired back with a suite of console exclusives: the GTA creator's 70s spy thriller Agent, PSP Metal Gear Solid sequel Peace Walker, and a launch exclusive online Final Fantasy 14. Other E3 highlights: a new massively multiplayer cops and robbers game from the Crackdown creators, a followup to Grasshopper's light-saber slacker slasher No More Heroes, the hyper-styled slapstick mania of Rabbids Go Home, and a new partnership between Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Ubisoft that bears a suspiciously similar codename to Mizuguchi's retro-futurist music-shooter Rez.