==2007: Flagship Studios Community Day== Flagship Studios held their first community day event on May 17, 2007. ''Hellgate: London'' information was covered by an NDA, but Diablo II discussions were not, and hellgate.incgamers.com and diabloii.net contributor Flux attended the event (and visited Flagship Studios several [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2310&cat=513 other times] during 2006-2007) and [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2312&cat=513 caught up] with [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2311&cat=513 numerous] Blizzard North [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1646&si=community-day-2007 founders] and employees he'd known since he started covering ''Diablo II ''back in 1998. Exact details of what they'd left behind when they departed from Blizzard North were off the record, but Flux was assured by several Blizzard North employees that a good amount of work had been done on ''Diablo III'' by the time the big four departed in June 2003, and that the project had been kicked back almost to the drawing board once nearly the entire Diablo II team left the company after Blizzard North was closed in 2005. ==2007: Third Ongoing Projects Project Confirmed==
On July 13, 2007, Blizzard VP of Product Development Frank Pearce spoke to Gamasutra about the company's third team and their unannounced project.<sup>[[#References|9]]</sup>