Diablo: Hellfire

Hellfire
Front cover artwork
Developer(s)Synergistic Software
Publisher(s)Sierra On-Line
Designer(s)
  • Kirt Lemons
  • Donald Tsang
  • Peter Watje
  • Jim Edwards
  • Mike McMillen
Programmer(s)Donald Tsang
Writer(s)Eve Forward
Composer(s)Matt Uelmen[2]
SeriesDiablo
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
Genre(s)Action role-playing, hack and slash
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Hellfire, often called Diablo: Hellfire, is an expansion pack for the video game Diablo, developed by Synergistic Software, a Sierra division, and published by Sierra On-Line in 1997. Despite the objections of Blizzard Entertainment, the Hellfire expansion was produced, permitted by Davidson & Associates, their parent company at the time. Blizzard North, who was developing the sequel Diablo II, thus imposed numerous restrictions upon Synergistic Software's development of Hellfire.[3]

Hellfire was re-released alongside Diablo in 1998 in a bundle called Diablo + Hellfire. Hellfire was released digitally by Blizzard Entertainment on June 5, 2019 as a free add-on with every purchase of the original Diablo on GOG.com.[4][5]

  1. ^ Staff (November 25, 1997). "Now Shipping". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on February 18, 1998. Retrieved December 6, 2019. Sierra's Hellfire add-on for Diablo ... [is] now shipping to stores.
  2. ^ "Diablo: Hellfire OST". GameRadio Video Games Music and OST. Max Samsonov. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  3. ^ "How a Diablo expansion led to behind the scenes trouble". Polygon. June 29, 2018.
  4. ^ "Release: Hellfire expansion to the original Diablo". GOG.com. June 5, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  5. ^ Wales, Matt (June 5, 2019). "GOG releases Diablo's unofficial Hellfire expansion as a free update". Eurogamer. Retrieved June 6, 2019.

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