Team 3

Team 3 is the designation for a Blizzard Entertainment development team, receiving its designation as per the company's post-World of Warcraft approach to games development. It currently consists of between 100&mdash;300 individuals.

History
Few members of Team 3 are from Blizzard North, though many had played the previous installments before beginning work on Diablo III. In the time period between the release of Diablo III and Reaper of Souls, the team consisted of 400 individuals. After the release of RoS, and the cancellation of The King in the North, Team 3 was split up. Some left Blizzard, some were transferred to work on World of Warcraft or the nascent Overwatch, and some remained to work on patches for Diablo III while planning Diablo IV. What this resulted in was Project Hades.

In December, 2014, members of Team 3 provided consultation with Bungie on the development of The Taken King, as Activision had noticed similar complaints leveled at Destiny as the original version of Diablo III.

Project Hades was cancelled in 2016, leading to another split in Team 3. One group began work on Rise of the Necromancer, while the other began work on Diablo IV. It is not working on Diablo Immortal, which is purely an Incubation/NetEase venture.

In February 2019, after a round of layoffs at Activision Blizzard, it was announced that the team would be expanded. In 2020, Team 3, in addition to developing Diablo IV, was assigned to the development of Diablo II: Resurrected, alongside Vicarious Visions.