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.

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”

UPDATE: Extra Part has been released. HD download only!

Did anyone mention HPAW Retro? No I don’t mean old games, I mean old cast. That’s right we have Nw Striker AND WorldGone Awry in the studio for this special expansion. I say special expansion because a lot of what I saw during the marathon wasn’t traditional Halo 3. What I saw was a mix of Halo, Metroid Prime and Star Wars Republic Commando.

What about details? Well we have a 6 person cast consisting of Mempf, Teclis, Kaisuke, Biske, Nw Striker and WorldGone Awry. This is a start to finish marathon however there were some technical issues that screwed up the order a little, more on this later. We played two person Co-op on two different Xbox’s (no split-screen) with Nw Striker playing on the recording screen.

HD/720P Downloads:
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 1 (HD/720P) (1.1 GiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 2 (HD/720P) (1.1 GiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 3 (HD/720P) (890.5 MiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 4 (HD/720P) (1.0 GiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 5 (HD/720P) (1.1 GiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Extra Part (HD/720P) (571.8 MiB)

SD/iPod Downloads:
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 1 (SD/iPod) (470.3 MiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 2 (SD/iPod) (462.5 MiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 3 (SD/iPod) (376.5 MiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 4 (SD/iPod) (440.3 MiB)
Halo 3: ODST Marathon Part 5 (SD/iPod) (476.7 MiB)

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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Welcome to the long awaited (by us) Crysis Marathon. Crysis is a game which I have wanted to feature on HPAW since it came out, however, my PC never had the power until now. It wasn’t that my computer couldn’t handle Crysis at max settings, it’s that it couldn’t handle recording Crysis at the same time. The framerate was just to low to even play.

Now a new video card and quad core cpu later, the problem with recording is not “gone” but now the game remains playable. Turning down the settings was always an option but I don’t think anything but max settings really show off the true beauty and excellent design that Crysis has to offer. To compliment this I am using better encoding settings than normal, including a raised bitrate and a slower, higher quality encoding method.

HD Versions:
Crysis Marathon Part 1 (HD/720P+) (1.3 GiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 2 (HD/720P+) (1.1 GiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 3 (HD/720P+) (1.3 GiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 4 (HD/720P+) (1.0 GiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 5 (HD/720P+) (1.3 GiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 6 (HD/720P+) (461.7 MiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 7 (HD/720P+) (845.6 MiB)
Crysis Marathon Part 8 (HD/720P+) (1.1 GiB)
Crysis Marathon Parts 9 & 10 (HD/720P+) (1.8 GiB)

If you have problems playing back the videos email videosupport@hpaw.net and we will handle it on a case by case basis.