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    The buzziest games this year prove that gamers want old-school couch co-op

    An hour into playing the video game "Baldur's Gate 3" with my husband, we'd already broken the first and probably most ignored rule of "Dungeons & Dragons": Never split the party. Separated on opposite ends of a crypt after an unfortunate incident with a trap that set a room ablaze, we had no idea how to get our team — including his gnome monk and my elven cleric — back together without ...
    by Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times Sep 11, 2023 5 minutes
    The PlayStation 5 version of“ Baldur’ s Gate 3” includes a couch co-op mode that allows players to experience the game together on the same screen.

    An hour into playing the video game "Baldur's Gate 3" with my husband, we'd already broken the first and probably most ignored rule of "Dungeons & Dragons": Never split the party.

    Separated on opposite ends of a crypt after an unfortunate incident with a trap that set a room ablaze, we had no idea how to get our team — including his gnome monk and my elven cleric — back together without killing us all.

    I had a few suggestions (throw a vase on the trap in hopes of disarming it, try to dash through). But after a couple minutes of friendly bickering, we gave up on the trap. I exited my half of the party from the crypt and went all the way around to reunite with my gnomish husband in another room of the building.

    Having dodged that disaster, we enjoyed the chance to solve a problem together while uncovering a new

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