Patch Notes #5- Long-dead dev gossip hub ‘Fat Babies’ shows the industry’s progress, and where it still lags
Editor's note: This story was drafted before the Internet Archive suffered a massive DDOS attack, and links to archive.org currently do not function. Check back later to take your own deep dive in the Fat Babies archives.
Hello dear readers. Chris is out this month for some well-deserved R&R, leaving the pilot's seat open for me to come in and steer the good ship Patch Notes. Today, we're going to take a strange trip through game development history.
I was working on a completely unrelated story a couple weeks ago when a source I was speaking with casually asked me "you remember 'Fat Babies,' right?"
Fat Babies? The name was so outlandish I thought for a moment I was being played. But nope. I dug through The Internet Archive and discovered there was indeed a game developer's gossip hub called Fat Babies, and it was incredibly unhinged.
How else could I describe it? Where in 2024 would you find a website where bloggers spilled industry gossip, developers argued viciously on forums, and the si…
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