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A very brief chronological history of important dates in the development of the next ''Diablo ''title. All events in this timeline are elaborated on elsewhere on this page.
* '''June 28, 2000'''. ''Diablo II ''released.
* '''Late 2000'''. Preliminary work begins on ''Diablo III''.
* '''June 29, 2001'''. ''Diablo II Expansion ''released.
* '''May 28, 2003'''. The "Big Four" resign from Blizzard North. (Bill Roper, plus Blizzard North company founders Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik.)
* '''June 11, 2003'''. Rick Seis named new head of Blizzard North.
* '''September 22, 2003'''. [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/w/index.php/Flagship_Studios Flagship Studios founded] by Bill Roper, Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik. Joining them as co-founders are five other principles, Kenneth Williams, David Glenn, Peter Hu, Phil Shenk, and Tyler Thompson. All but David Glenn were working at Blizzard North before quitting to join Flagship.
* '''August 1, 2005'''. Blizzard North closed, employees offered severance or a transfer to Blizzard's Irvine HQs. The one remaining ongoing project (universally presumed to be ''Diablo III'') put on hold pending a thorough review. (Almost all of the work done by Blizzard North is eventually tossed and development is essentially begun from scratch by a new team at Blizzard Irvine.)
* '''April 27, 2005'''. (Unconfirmed.) Recording session for ''Diablo III ''soundtrack held in Bratislava, Slovakia, with the Slovak Radio Philharmonic.
* '''October 28, 2005'''. Massive rumors about ''Diablo III '' leak from Chris Hartgraves, an ex-Blizzard employee.
* '''September 6, 2005'''. Rick Seis, head of Blizzard North, evidently unhappy with plans for the continued development of ''Diablo III ''at Blizzard Irvine, leaves the company and joins numerous other ex-Blizzard North/Diablo team members at Castaway Entertainment.
* '''October 26, 2006'''. Richard Knaak, author of several of the Diablo Novels, states that he is not writing books "for a dead game."
* '''July 13, 2007'''. Frank Pearce, senior vice president of product development at Blizzard, comments on the unannounced project. "Team 3 is working on something really awesome. I can’t give you any hints, but it’s totally awesome."
* '''2004-2008'''. Numerous Blizzard job openings offer positions on, "the team that designed ''Diablo ''and ''Diablo II''."
=The Rumor Mill=
