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*'''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.
*'''April 27, 2005'''. (Unconfirmed.) Recording session for ''Diablo III ''soundtrack held in Bratislava, Slovakia, with the Slovak Radio Philharmonic.
*'''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.)