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This week on Polygon, we’re looking at games that feel like vacations for your brain. When you don’t want to worry about strategy or challenge or complex narratives, and you’re just in it ...

The worry is that it may be too little, too late. India’s K-shaped post-pandemic recovery has been exacerbated over the last few years, with insipid consumer spending for the vast majority and ...

Like it or not, the shocking $87,840 sale of a Charizard-shaped Cheeto appears to have opened the floodgates for entrepreneurial salty snack aficionados. Just a couple weeks after the sale of the ...

The lawsuit, which Polygon has reviewed, was filed in January in Louisiana state court before NetEase filed for the case to be moved to federal court in March. In a letter sent to NetEase CEO Ding ...

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primeimages / Getty Images A U-shaped recovery is a type of economic recovery with a recessionary decline followed by a period of stagnation then a gradual rise back to its previous peak.

Nes / Getty Images A W-shaped recovery is a recession that is followed by a short-lived recovery, that is followed by another recession and another recovery. When charting economic measures such ...