{"id":1017,"date":"2021-04-02T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T09:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/play-nicely-the-fun-and-frustrations-of-gaming-with-your-partner\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T09:33:52","slug":"play-nicely-the-fun-and-frustrations-of-gaming-with-your-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/play-nicely-the-fun-and-frustrations-of-gaming-with-your-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Play nicely! The fun and frustrations of gaming with your partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quality time together or the guaranteed path to a breakup? Either way, over the pandemic more and more couples have been giving co-operative video games a try<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristan Reed: <\/strong>\u201cOh God! Let\u2019s never break up!\u201d pleads Keza as we embark upon the divorcees-to-be shenanigans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/mar\/31\/it-takes-two-review-it-electronic-arts-ps45-xbox-pc\">It Takes Two<\/a>, a kind of Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Parents-to-Fix-Their-Toxic-Marriage. I admit, I approached this bizarro platformer with a certain amount of trepidation, on account of occasionally having a rocky time playing games with my beloved partner. People imagine it\u2019s some holy-grail nirvana to have a gamer partner, but the truth is Keza is just a bit too good at games to be wholly tolerant towards others (mostly: me) flailing around haplessly \u2013 especially in Nintendo games, effectively her second native language.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/apr\/02\/play-nicely-the-fun-and-frustrations-of-gaming-with-your-partner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/834875db2115911a2f79770ddba16ef14508c1d0\/0_72_2078_1247\/master\/2078.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=56880ec09ddbe42026f130ce654dcd34\" title=\"Play nicely! The fun and frustrations of gaming with your partner\" \/>Quality time together or the guaranteed path to a breakup? Either way, over the pandemic more and more couples have been giving co-operative video games a try<br \/>\nKristan Reed: \u201cOh God! Let\u2019s never break up!\u201d pleads Keza as we embark upon the divorcees-to-be shenanigans of It Takes Two, a kind of Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Parents-to-Fix-Their-Toxic-Marriage. I admit, I approached this bizarro platformer with a certain amount of trepidation, on account of occasionally having a rocky time playing games with my beloved partner. People imagine it\u2019s some holy-grail nirvana to have a gamer partner, but the truth is Keza is just a bit too good at games to be wholly tolerant towards others (mostly: me) flailing around haplessly \u2013 especially in Nintendo games, effectively her second native language. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quality time together or the guaranteed path to a breakup? Either way, over the pandemic more and more couples have been giving co-operative video games a try Kristan Reed: \u201cOh God! Let\u2019s never break up!\u201d pleads Keza as we embark upon the divorcees-to-be shenanigans of It Takes Two, a kind of Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Parents-to-Fix-Their-Toxic-Marriage. I admit, I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/play-nicely-the-fun-and-frustrations-of-gaming-with-your-partner\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play nicely! The fun and frustrations of gaming with your partner<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}