Houses are sealed by green fences. Entertainment venues are shut. Trucks face roadblocks. The typical scenes from locked-down Shanghai have made a virtual crossover. The familiar setting is now part of a fictitious island in the popular Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Behind the virtual reality is Laura Liang and Josh Jiang. The Shanghai couple has recreated their experience from the COVID-19 lockdown, now in its fourth week. “Everything in the game is a déjà vu,” Liang, who is now in her 30s and works for an advertising agency, told Sixth Tone. The game was first released in...