[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

I returned to fansite involvement in 2006, when Elly convinced me to run the network's new [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/ Hellgate: London site]. I enjoyed that project, felt anticipation for the game, and it was fun to see all the old gang from Blizzard North in their new studio. Unfortunately, when HGL was released in a buggy, unfinished state on Halloween 2007, fan interest dried up and my hoped for payoff (a share in the ad revenues of a busy fansite) for my year and a half of part time work, vanished.