Here's what I hate about E3: It's physically impossible to see everything.

The show floors in South and West Hall only stay open for a grand total of 21 hours. A behind-closed-doors demo lasts between 30 minutes and an hour. Booth tours, where PR cuts you past the lines to see any and every game on site, can go two hours or longer, depending on your thoroughness. And if you don't have that VIP access, you spend an hour or more just waiting in line to play one game.

On top of that, I'll personally guarantee whatever cool thing you're up to, something super-cool's going down elsewhere. You're going to miss something, period. And if you didn't get to go to the big show for whatever reason, you missed a lot...even if you spent every second glued to G4's televised coverage. People come to them; they rarely show you what's going on beyond their sets. Short answer: everything.

So, straight from my camera, here's a small piece of the E3 you didn't see.

Setting up Rage zombies above the south entrance.

Stairway to Deus Ex: Human Revolution (South Hall).

West Hall. Notice the black curtains...crews are still building the installations on the other side. I've got a story about someone accidentally breaking an unannounced game by taking pictures (at covered installations) through these very doors. Those shrouds went up the next year.

Orchestra practicing for Lord of the Rings: War in the North installation outside South Hall.

Raising Vita.

Dictation (Nintendo media briefing).

Roger Ebert panned this one.

She just carved up Uwe Boll.