News is trickling out of E3 like treacle after an explosion in a molasses factory. So far:

Voodoo Extreme is reporting from the Microsoft press conference at E3 that the Xbox 360 console will be able to play the some Xbox titles via emulation. On his blog, Major Nelson also repeats the claim issued by Robbie Bach at E3: that the Xbox 360 will play "the most popular" Xbox titles.

Cortana pays the price for Master Chief's wardrobe malfunction in this week's Halo Babies cartoon. Thanks mrsmiley.

Ricodued over at Halo Messenger notes that we've added an hmsa.xml file to Rampancy.net that can be automatically detected by his Halo Messenger newsreader. This means when you click "Discover Subscription" in the application and enter the domain name "rampancy.net", Halo Messenger will automatically discover the address of Rampancy's RSS feed and subscribe to it. Certainly other sites will follow suit.

mrsmiley muses about what happens when Halo Art gets big enough to take care of itself; a truly massive art update this week at Halo Babies. (I know, we call it that every time--Ed.)

Stosh wishes a happy 7th birthday to Lil Poison, the world's youngest professional gamer. For more information, visit LiL Poison's website.

Today, Halo Babies proposes an alternate use for the Covenant sword.

magnum76 on the Project Torlan-Nexus forum has posted an update on what is and is not acceptable to do in creating a Halo-themed mod, like theirs for Unreal Tournament; basically, it seems that extracting Halo content from PC Halo is okay, but extracting Halo 2 content from the Xbox is not. Keep in mind that the information comes from a supposed "Microsoft insider" and is not an official company statement.

GameSpot has an item up on a US concert tour called Video Games Live put together by Tommy Tallarico and the Clear Channel Music Group. Here's why it's interesting for us:

This one's been sitting in the hopper for awhile-- the newest Halo Babies comic is an ambitious six-panel called the Adventure of Super Chief. Check it out! Thanks mrsmiley.

Devin has produced transcripts of the A Walk in the Woods and Under Cover of Night tracks from Halo; each file archive includes a PDF, a MIDI file, a PrintMusic document and a read me. We've added them to our Halo Sheetmusic section.

Ross Mills asks Halo Bible author Eric Trautmann about storytelling in games on Eric's blog:

Q: RPG videogames are well known for their in-depth stories. Without major spoilers, what 5 action games would you describe as having the best, most well-thought out story apart from Halo? (which is cheating, since you did that one's story)

Luckily for Eric Trautmann, whether or not The Art of Halo makes the game-related bestsellers list at Locus, as he notes on his blog, is not up to him.