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.

Crysis Marathon Preivew (HD/720P+) (30.5 MiB)

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.

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Hello and once again welcome to another HPAW episode. This week we take a look at one of the few good Star Wars shooters, Republic Commando. In this game you play as the squad leader of an elite Delta squad team tasked with tipping the war in the Republics favor. We have a full cast this week and a new encoder for maximum quality.

A couple of side notes:
1. Game was played on the Xbox 360 in 720P, the game is not truly HD and is in fact upscaled to HD.
2. YouTube has been giving us grief for the past couple of weeks and is showing no signs of stopping. Expect YouTube versions delays.

HPAW July 10th 2009: Star Wars Republic Commando (HD/720P) (938.0 MiB)
HPAW July 10th 2009: Star Wars Republic Commando (SD/iPod) (490.9 MiB)
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Hello and welcome to another 2009 episode of HPAW. (We are keeping a decent schedule, yay!) This week HPAW takes a look at Mirror’s Edge, not a new game anymore but one that had slipped my mind for many months. Mirror’s Edge is a game about free running and is made by the same developer as the Battlefield series. We have a full cast for this episode, so join us as we take to the rooftops of Mirror’s Edge.

UPDATE: Version 2 of HD version has been released. Quality is MUCH improved and the file size is DOWN! Goes to show that opensource programs once again beat commercial programs

HPAW June 24th 2009: Mirror's Edge (HD/720P) V2 (1.2 GiB)
HPAW June 24th 2009: Mirror's Edge (SD/iPod) (470.2 MiB)

There were some serious technical difficulties with the live version of this episode. Hopefully next time will turn out better.

We also invite you to check out and help build HPAW’s New Wiki! as I don’t have the time to work on it much myself we will really need our community to help us out here. First and foremost we need a logo for the top corner of the wiki. Any artwork submissions can be submitted on the HPAW Forums.

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Welcome to another episode of HPAW. This week we had a plan but that plan changed when WorldGone Awry showed up. So join Alex Mercer and a great cast of Mempf, Teclis, Kaisuke, Dark Elf and WorldGone Awry for a mission of vengeance.

This episode was not filmed live so don’t worry people you didn’t miss out. But this episode does have a few surprises.

HPAW June 11th 2009: Prototype (HD/720P) (1.4 GiB)
HPAW June 11th 2009: Prototype (SD/iPod) (531.4 MiB)
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Hello and welcome to HPAW’s first unofficial episode since Supreme Commander. Join Mempf and Teclis as we count down the remaining days until E3 and play some Battlefield. Make sure you watch until the last second.

Unofficial HPAW May 28th 2009 (HD) (1.5 GiB)
Unofficial HPAW May 28th 2009 (SD/iPod) (524.6 MiB)

And Dante the Jedi has a new unofficial marathon of sorts called Point, Click, Repeat, so check it out:

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Welcome to HPAW’s first live episode! Massive amounts of blood and gore for everyone. You see Jack doesn’t fight people he kicks their ass, with a chainsaw! We welcome a full cast and our live audience on Justin.tv for this epic and historical game on the Wii, Mad World.

A couple of side notes. No one in the studio before this episode had ever played this game. There will not be an HD version of this episode (Wii does not output in HD).

HPAW May 13th 2009: Mad World (689.1 MiB)
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This Wednesday we will be filming an HPAW episode featuring Mad World for the Wii. We will be starting the live feed around 5:00PM PST. So at 5:00PM or whatever local time that may be for you head over to http://www.justin.tv/mempf/ and check it out.

The cast of the episode has yet to be confirmed but this post will be updated when it is.

And for those who miss the live episode or just don’t want to watch it live (there is still a good chance the live feed will be a webcam again) we will of course be recording the episode and it will be released hopefully within 24 hours.

I remind everyone the Wii does not output in HD so don’t expect an HD version this time.

So once again here are the details:
What: Live HPAW episode on Mad World for the Wii
Where: http://www.justin.tv/mempf/
When: Wednesday, May 13th 2009 at ~5:00PM PST
Who: Mempf, Teclis, Biske and Kaisuke

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Part 14 has been released. Marathon complete! Thank you for watching!

Welcome to the Resident Evil 5 Marathon. For the first time ever we will be showing an off screen live feed of the game. The screen used will be the Sheva screen. The quality kinda sucks so make sure you get the HD parts when made available later. We are also of course filming our regular segmented marathon in HD simultaneously using Chris’s screen.

Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 1 (HD/720P) (992.8 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 2 (HD/720P) (992.5 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 3 (HD/720P) (992.7 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 4 (HD/720P) (996.9 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 5 (HD/720P) (998.6 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 6 (HD/720P) (707.7 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 7 (HD/720P) (996.9 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 8 (HD/720P) (996.2 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 9 (HD/720P) (996.2 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 10 (HD/720P) (997.1 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 11 (HD/720P) (1.4 GiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 12 (HD/720P) (998.6 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 13 (HD/720P) (995.8 MiB)
Resident Evil 5 Marathon Part 14 (HD/720P) (1.2 GiB)

-Featuring: Mempf, Teclis, Biske and Kaisuke
-Length: ~14 hours or 14 parts
-First Encounter (Never played the game before)
-HPAW’s first ever live marathon (thanks to all who joined us)

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Welcome to another HPAW episode, this week we have two games, Katamari Damacy amd Noby Noby Boy. Both are crazy games from Bandai Namco so try not to make too much sense of this episode.

Quality is kinda low on the Katamari section (upscaling sucks) but the Noby Noby Boy section looks amazing. In addition I was really sick for the filming of this episode so sorry about any disruptions caused by that.

HPAW March 23rd 2009: Katamari Damacy & Noby Noby Boy (HD/720P) (996.2 MiB)
HPAW March 23rd 2009: Katamari Damacy & Noby Noby Boy (SD/iPod) (495.1 MiB)
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Hello and welcome to another special HPAW project on one of my favorite games F.E.A.R. Just like the FEAR M.E. project, FEAR M.E. First will be a start to finish play through of the original game FEAR. I hope to show the differences between FEAR1 and FEAR2 and once and for all decide which game is superior.

This will follow the same format and quality level as FEAR M.E. with videos split up between intervals (for the most part).

FEAR M.E. First is now complete

FEAR M.E. First "Inception" (367.5 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Initiation" (369.5 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Escalation" Part 1 (739.5 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Escalation" Part 2 (968.7 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Infiltration" (979.8 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Extraction" Part 1 (715.7 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Extraction" Part 2 (504.3 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Interception" Part 1 (738.5 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Interception" Part 2 (764.8 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Redirection" Part 1 (746.5 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Redirection" Part 2 (845.6 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Desolation" Part 1 (625.4 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Desolation" Part 2 (645.0 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Incursion" (932.9 MiB)
FEAR M.E. First "Revelation & Retaliation" (611.9 MiB)
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