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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Sid Meier's Civilization 7 Arcade Edition will be added to the Apple Arcade game catalog on February 5 alongside a smattering of other new games. This ...

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Does Harvard teach its undergraduates about “Western civilization”? As a history major there, I was recently surprised to learn—at least according to the conservative media ecosystem—that the answer ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...