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Anyone who has seen “Princess Mononoke,” Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 masterpiece about a young warrior and her wolf who battle to stave off an ecological disaster, will almost certainly discern its influence on the video game Neva. Both open against the backdrop of a once pristine natural environment that has been …

The intergalactic bounty hunter in the sci-fi video game Metroid was outfitted with a sleek helmet, red and orange armor and a deadly arm cannon. But it’s what was underneath that was emblematic of the late 1980s. If a player defeated the game in less than an hour, the character …