E3 Picture Gallery: Wish We Were There Part 1

Is there anywhere else in the world gamers wish they were than Los Angeles this week? If your answer to that question is "yes," then you're probably reading the wrong site.

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If you've never attended the Electronic Entertainment Expo (more commonly known as E3), it is almost impossible to explain the magic that fills the Los Angeles Convention Center for one week in June. Day one includes getting your bearings in the huge hall, plotting the best possible route to all of the meetings you've set up, and trying to get your hands on as many games as you can as you run frantically to your next appointment.

After the jump, take a gander at all the sights that the Bitmob team saw as they entered the video game mecca that is E3.

Just in case you've been living under a rock or are one of the five or six people who don't play the Final Fantasy games, No. 14 is coming, and it is going to be online.

Ads for Toy Story 3 and Fear 3 also take up valuable entrance hall space.

Huge banners for Crysis 2 and Homefront drape the outside of the convention center. Useful if you weren't quite sure what was going on inside.

Not to be outdone in the hype department, Rock Band 3 and The Force Unleashed 2 banners and videos welcome people into the convention hall.

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Isn't that the old dude from the PlayStation 3 commercials on that banner for the PlayStation Move?

With an ad like this, do they really need to tell us it's Mortal Kombat?

It's epic, and it's Mickey Mouse. What else do you need to know?

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The following shots were taken from Microsoft's Kinect world premier event, with Cirque du Soleil in attendance.

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Our cultist ponchos' shoulder pads all lit up at the same time, in different colors. Can't say we know for sure why, but they did.

The wild natives all worship the modern-day living-room family playing Kinect in the sky — upside down no less. We don't believe we were dreaming this. Could be the sleep deprivation kicking in….

A (not real) elephant walks through the crowd, with a giant video display on its side. All grown up now, the wild child from The Road Warrior helps a young boy off the beast.

Bottom line: Microsoft's Natal/Kinect event wasn't really a news or press conference — just an insane show.

Is it an accessory, or modern-day zen technology? Ubisoft's new Innergy Sensor. For the quick explanation, read this.

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Ubisoft decided this would be a great time to bring Laser Tag back, except this time you download your stats to a PC. Sounds….interesting?

Tetsuya Mizuguchi demos Child of Eden, the game that's totally not Rez 2. How could it be, the name's totally different! It's basically Rez 2, though. But on Kinect.

Some Halo guys in the convention center, hanging out.

Cliff Bleszinski and friends demo Bulletstorm.

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Crysis 2, now in 3D — And the audience looks thrilled.

Hey, that's Joe Montana! Remember when he had a football game franchise, too?

24 people supposedly playing multiplayer Call of Duty, but you know that's really just a video. Ok, maybe not.

In case you were worried, they didn't stop making Need for Speed games! Whew. This one's NFS: Hot Pursuit, and it's about cops who drive Bugattis and crash into other people on purpose. It happens.

EA's press conference took place in this theater. Click here to see how it all went down..