SPLIT FICTION
GAMES
THE PAGEMASTER, BUT GOOD (AND NO MACAULAY CULKIN)
★★★★★
PC, PS5, XBOX SERIES X|S
“Heads, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes...”
WHEN STRUGGLING SCI-FI author Mio (voiced by Kaja Chan) and fantasy writer Zoe (Elsie Bennett) meet at Rader Publishing, they think they’re on the cusp of getting book deals. Instead, they’re roped into testing sketchy immersive simulations of their work —and Mio’s attempt to escape traps them both in virtual worlds alternating between their respective genres. The real fantasy is any literary publisher having resources like that, so it’s little surprise that Rader is actually a big-tech vulture stealing ideas directly from the minds of creators, all to soullessly churn into #content. In the age of AI slop we’re currently trapped in, the metaphor feels quite pointed.