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In 1996, id Software smashed through to another dimension – in one sense of the word, pioneering first-person shooters in the third dimension with the release of Quake, and in another, hurtling players feet-first into Quake’s otherworldly realm – a place beyond our reality where kinetic combat and a moody eldritch setting took FPS players…

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During his lifetime, the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, arguably the greatest ever Spanish-language writer, considered One Hundred Years of Solitude, his 1967 magnum opus, to be unfilmable. “The novel, unlike film,” he told an interviewer in the 1980s, “leaves the reader room for creativity, allowing them to imagine the characters, settings, and situations as…