On Saturday we started to film our Mass Effect 2 Marathon; just days after the game launched we bring you what could be our best marathon yet.

Featuring Mempf, Teclis, Nw Striker, Kaisuke and Biske we start a new character and dive into the amazing world of Mass Effect. I highly recommend watching the HD version as the quality is near perfect. We recommend VLC media player or if your on Windows 7, the videos should just work. Remember to right click and save as, if the video opens in your browser.

HD Versions:
Part’s 5, 6 and 14 much longer than one hour.

Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 1 (HD/720P+) (1,004.8 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 2 (HD/720P+) (1.3 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 3 (HD/720P+) (1.1 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 4 (HD/720P+) (1.3 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 5 (HD/720P+) (2.3 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 6 (HD/720P+) (3.3 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 7 (HD/720P+) (1.7 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 8 (HD/720P+) (1.8 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 9 (HD/720P+) (1.5 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 10 (HD/720P+) (1.3 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 11 (HD/720P+) (1.8 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 12 (HD/720P+) (1.4 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 13 (HD/720P+) (1.5 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 14 (HD/720P+) (2.3 GiB)

SD Versions:
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 1 (SD/iPod) (358.8 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 2 (SD/iPod) (434.7 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 3 (SD/iPod) (378.5 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 4 (SD/iPod) (411.0 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 5 (SD/iPod) (742.7 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 6 (SD/iPod) (1.0 GiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 7 (SD/iPod) (546.3 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 8 (SD/iPod) (554.4 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 9 (SD/iPod) (453.3 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 10 (SD/iPod) (437.0 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 11 (SD/iPod) (593.5 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 12 (SD/iPod) (465.4 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 13 (SD/iPod) (483.4 MiB)
Mass Effect 2 Marathon Part 14 (SD/iPod) (726.2 MiB)

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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?

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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.

HPAW October 17th 2009: Halo 3 ODST Firefight (HD/720P+) (1.2 GiB)
HPAW October 17th 2009: Halo 3 ODST Firefight (SD/iPod) (535.3 MiB)
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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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