Welcome to another (on schedule!) HPAW episode. This week we feature a “co-op” Mario game for the Wii. Co-op really is a relative term but the fun is there no matter what.

Unfortunately Biske was unable to join us this week but we were once again able to get both WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker in studio for this new crazy co-op Mario game. A few announcements were made at the end of the episode so make sure you watch the whole thing (or take advantage of our players seeking ability and skip there). As a reminder this is a Wii title so there will be no HD version of the episode.

You heard the possibility of a Tekken 6 episode and it’s true Biske was able to get a copy of the game for us to play. Once again we have a full cast along with WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker.

Also note that you can now seek to any place in the video in our player. But remember that the HD version just looks so nice.

I will be preforming some tests on the HPAW server over the next week, expect downtime, strange errors and all manors of strangeness.

Please bare with us while we perform this testing, we expect downtime to be minimal.

SERVER HAS BEEN MOVED PLEASE REPORT ALL REMAINING ISSUES!

YOU CAN NOW SEEK TO ANY POSITION IN THE HPAW PLAYER, TRY IT OUT WITH THE ORIGINAL OBLIVION MARATHON!

Or maybe you prefer the Shivering Isles Marathon?

Well we heard your disappointment in the lack of Firefight in our ODST marathon and originally we had planned to include it in our marathon. However technical issues resulted in the marathon ending much later than planned and the removal of the Firefight section.

To make up for this we present a Firefight featured episode with special guests WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker along with a full cast.

UPDATE WiiQuest Documentary now available in HPAW player

It’s that time of year, our web hosting agreement is nearing renewing but HPAW’s funds are low. We have never accepted donations and that is still the case, HOWEVER a deal with our webhost says if refer people they the bill will be payed for.

So if anyone is looking for great webhosting Dreamhost (host of HPAW) will provide unlimited bandwidth and disk space for under $10 for a month or $99.99 for a year with the “HPAW” promo code. (We waive the setup fee and lower the overall cost) it will actually magically pay our bill. So basically $10.95 for of  your own web hosting will pay about half of our yearly bill. So if you have ever wanted to help out HPAW now if your chance and hey you even get something in return!

So what are you waiting for sign up and don’t forget the promo code “HPAW”

Well we have less than one week to go before we start our Halo 3: ODST Marathon but before that we have a regularly scheduled episode. We initially had some trouble trying to decide what game we should do for this episode but when we started to discuss it in detail the answer became clear we had to do another episode of FEAR 2.

Recently a $10 expansion/DLC was released for FEAR 2 called Reborn. it is an expansion on the single player experience that I feel is much truer to the original FEAR than ever before. Kaisuke was missing for this episode however we are no longer bound by YouTube’s hour-long sometimes you don’t get your episode encoded limit so enjoy this extra long episode. I also like to remind people to help out on the HPAW Wiki, it’s not going to update itself you know.

I would also like to announce that the Mario Party 8 episode which includes a fantastic montage at the beginning has been recoded for the new player. This episode can be found on the sidebar under HPAW Videos or by clicking the read more link on this post.

Another September, another year of school for many of us including myself and Teclis. I am much more busy this semester than I could have imagined. DON’T PANIC! HPAW has a few public service announcements which will hopefully cheer up those September blues. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST SO YOU DON’T MISS ANYTHING.

1. The great backport continues as I slowly make my way backwards and recode/embed all of our videos into our new player to replace YouTube. Maybe I will take requests only at this point so please fire off an email to requests@hpaw.net or simply leave a comment on this post with your requests on what I should restore next.

2. Relating to the announcement above we are proud to announce the long awaited return of the Grand Theft Auto IV Marathon in streamable form.

3. We have an HPAW episode planned for tomorrow Sept. 18th although this may not happen as we have not yet selected a game nor have we confirmed availability of all HPAW cast.

4. This is mostly unrelated but I’d like to mention it anyway. I now volunteer every Tuesday at a local radio show called Melodies in Mind. I am responsible for video production (on a radio show, I know, crazy) and getting the videos on YouTube. So please check out the YouTube channel for Melodies in Mind, there is some amazing music on the show and HPAW’s HCAM is there to capture it. You can also listen to the show live at 8:00-10:00pm PST every Tuesday at http://cjsf.ca.

5. Finally we arrive at our major announcement for the month. Our next marathon has been planned for filming next Friday Sept. 26th. Yes that’s right, a Halo 3: ODST Marathon featuring the HPAW cast and THE RETURN OF NW STRIKER, former HPAW member for those of you new here. Before you ask, we currently do not know if WorldGone Awry will be here for the marathon or not.

UPDATE: Marathon now completed, all parts uploaded.

As many of you have been wondering if we were going to do Crysis: Warhead the standalone expansion to Crysis. The answer is yes, we have another start to finish marathon on Crysis: Warhead. This marathon features a full cast consisting of Mempf, Teclis, Biske and Kaisuke.

Both HD and SD versions will be available with the SD version in our new player and both HD and SD downloadable. To find the SD downloads please click on the More link below.

Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 1 (HD/720P+) (963.0 MiB)
Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 2 (HD/720P+) (913.1 MiB)
Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 3 (HD/720P+) (671.5 MiB)
Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 4 (HD/720P+) (854.5 MiB)
Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 5 (HD/720P+) (704.8 MiB)
Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 6 (HD/720P+) (824.8 MiB)
Crysis Warhead Marathon Part 7 (HD/720P+) (1.7 GiB)

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Well it seems like it finally happened. We got “3 strikes” on our YouTube account and automatically suspended. We saw this coming a couple of weeks ago and started to make preparations in case this occurred. We will not let this affect HPAW as we now have our own video player that should work for most people.

We are currently in the process of making our older content available in this new player and everything up to and including the Resident Evil 5 marathon is already available. Your comments on this post will help us decide which marathons/episodes to do next. We do not expect this to be a short process and it may be quite some time before all videos are available in the new player.

In other news, the Crysis marathon has been completed with the release of the combined Part 9 & 10. So please check out the front page and try the new video player for videos going back to RE5. Also take the following poll and leave your comments. For video playback help please email videosupport@hpaw.net for assistance.

UPDATE: I URGE people to try videos other than the Crysis Marathon before answering this poll. The Crysis Marathon has much higher requirements than our other videos.

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Hello and welcome to the preview of the upcoming HPAW project, Summer of Crysis.

Summer of Crysis is a start to finish marathon featuring the cast of the Kingdom Hearts 2 Marathon. We really wanted to do a true start to finish marathon without any large gaps in between any of the parts, just like the KH2 marathon. We are still waiting on a few things like artwork for the marathon before we can start releasing the actual parts. However we felt a preview was in order to show you guys what to expect over the next couple of weeks.

The marathon was filmed at max settings, 1360×768 resolution (over 720P!) and overall looks beautiful.

Also as many of you have noticed the HPAW server has been very unstable lately. This is because of server migration issues on behalf our server host. It is beyond our control although things should be much better from this point on. So please bare with us as we bare with our host until all migration issues have passed.