The World Video Game Hall Of Fame Inducts Four New Games

The World Video Game Hall of Fame has announced its four inductees for 2020, which will be hosted at The Strong Museum National Museum of Play. The collection, which is made up of historically significant and high-quality games, added two 1980s classics and two games from the 2000s this year.

The four inductees were picked from a list of 12 finalists:

  • Bejeweled
  • Centipede
  • Frogger
  • GoldenEye 007
  • Guitar Hero
  • King’s Quest
  • Minecraft
  • NBA Jam
  • Nokia Snake
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

You can watch the full ceremony below, performed remotely for the first time due to COVID-19, or you can keep scrolling to find out which titles made the cut for 2020.

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The Last of Us 2 Collectibles Guide Chapter 2: Seattle Day 1 – Capitol Hill

This portion of The Last of Us Part Two guide includes all collectible locations in Chapter 2: Seattle Day 1 – Capitol Hill. This includes all Artifacts, Trading Cards, and Journal Entries. Remember that you can revisit any chapter section to replay an area and collect missing items by returning to the main menu and selecting a chapter once you have completed it.

The Gate Collectibles Overview

View the sections below to locate a collectible in the order they are found.

  • Artifacts: 7
  • Trading Cards: 6
  • Workbenches: 2
  • Safes: 1

Artifact – Chevy’s Apology

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Head to the pool in the apartment complex area, just below the school you left. Look for a streak of blood on the ground outside the pool and follow it to apartment #6. Go upstairs and check the bedroom down the hall. On the bed, you’ll find a note. Keep in mind there are two bedrooms upstairs.

Short Gun Holster Location

Depending on if you found the gun holster in the Downtown area, you may find a short gun holster in this same room. If it doesn’t appear here, you’ll need to wait until the next chapter to find it.

Trading Card – Kinnard, E.SQ

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Enter Apartment #3 (in the area near the pool). On the left of the sofa is a side table with a trading card inside – Kinnard, E.SQ

Trading Card – Rockefeller

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Located at the Capitol Inn Motel, Room 3 is locked from the outside, but you can head into the alley on the left to find an open window into the motel room, and if you look near the door, the trading card has fallen out of a tipped over trash can

Artifact – Raul’s Olive Branch

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Next to the Capitol Inn Motel, you can find a large green moveable dumpster to the right. Move it around the curb and place it in front of a balcony of a nearby apartment to climb up and search the interior. Inside the apartment, you can find useful items (including supplements in the bathroom and scrap in the laundry room) and an artifact in the drawer to the left of the fridge called Raul’s Olive Branch. .

Trap Mine Recipe Location

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In the same apartment, go to the bedroom and find a Trap Mine to unlock the Trap Mine Recipe.

Workbench Location – Gas Station

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You can find a workbench in the Gas Station off to the far left of the area that’s swarming with WLF Soldiers (more will appear when you reach the Gas Station. Lure the nearby Infected in the bookstore across the street into engaging the WLF for you, and then clean up the survivors. Head inside the gas station’s garage shop to find a workbench in the corner, and search the area for more supplies.

Trading Card – Doctor Stem

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In the bookstore across the street from the gas station, open the door leading into a small hallway (and the bathrooms). Turn left and approach the record player between two comfy chairs.

Training Manual Stealth

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In the other room in the bookstore (the coffee house section), check the table with the type writer on it for another training manual to unlock a new skill line.

Artifact – Rebecca’s Tip Off

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In the same room as the training manual, approach the sink by the coffee machines. There, you’ll find another artifact in the form of a note.

Trading Card – Sergeant Frost

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Visit the Olive Street Market grocery store located down the hill from the gas station (full of infected, and patrolled by WLF Soldiers). You can begin your attack from above, using molotov cocktails and far off shots to take out most of the infected. Once inside, check the lockers in the back. There, you’ll find a trading card. Be sure to loot the store for supplies including some supplements by the checkout registers.

Trading Card – Candelabra

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Check the convenience store where the first infected is killed from a tripwire, and before tripwire that separates you from a batch of Runners. In the back, under the society of champions poster (advertising the trading cards), you’ll find your next card.

Artifact – Tower Doodles

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After first encountering the tripwire, which gets triggered by a Runner, move forward and take the opening on the right, labeled as restricted access (military personnel only). Take the ladder to check out the lookout post for a drawing made by a bored WLF member. Be sure to pick up scraps and other items while you’re up there.

Artifact – Raul’s Account

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After you enter the broken spot of land leading past a river, move up the path until you spot a mural that depicts “Feel her love” and then turn around to see a truck with its back open – and inside you’ll find supplies and a note.

Artifact – Frank’s Refusal

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After moving past the remains of a horse and into a narrow street full of tripwires, you can find a Martial Arts Dojo on your right, and a thrift store across the street with wires everywhere. Enter the Dojo, and take the hallway to the left of the trophy case, and you’ll see a cork board with an artifact on it.

Workbench Location – Gym

In the back of the decrepit building with the Martial Arts Dojo (in the area covered in tripwire), you can find a room with a workbench.

Trading Card – Blizzarebra

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Carefully cross the street full of tripwires and enter the thrift store and walk forward a bit. On your left you’ll see bookshelves. On the children’s bookshelf (back left by the white lamp), you’ll find another trading card.

Artifact – Thrift Store Reminder

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While still in the thrift store, go through the door ahead. You’ll be in a room of vending machines. Turn to the right and you’ll see an artifact pinned to the corkboard. It gives you a partial code for the safe.

Safe – Thrift Store

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The safe is located in the backroom of the thrift store. Part of the code is written in the Artifact – Thrift Store Reminder collectible. To get the entire code read the graffiti on the left of the bathroom sink (room closest to the vending machine). The Safe Combination is 55-01-33.

Looking for more Collectibles in The Last of Us Part Two? Find even more artifacts and trading cards in Chapter 2’s The Gate, Downtown, Eastbrook Elementary, Channel 13, The Tunnels, The Theater, and The Birthday Gift. Be sure to also check out our complete The Last of Us 2 Collectible Hub to find every secret in every chapter and location.

The Last Of Us Part 2 Coin Collecting Guide: Where To Find Every Coin

[WARNING: We’ve done everything we can to minimize spoilers in this walkthrough so you can enjoy the game even if you need help finding collectibles. However, if you want to know nothing about the game before playing, you should stop reading now.]

If you’re reading this guide, you’ve no doubt gathered that The Last Of Us Part II has no one, but two different types of collectibles. You’ve no doubt found all the trading cards using our Last Of Us Part II trading card guide, and now you’re here to finish the job… with coins! There are 32 coins in total to find in the game’s second half, and doing so will earn you a PlayStation trophy that you can show off to all your friends and relatives when they ask you what you achieved this month.

The coins can certainly a little bit trickier to find than the trading cards, not just because they’re smaller, but some of them are certainly in some devilish locations. In this guide, we’ll point you towards the location of every coin in the game, divided by chapter. As we recommended in the trading card guide, for additional help we recommend turning on the game’s High Contrast mode in the accessibility options, as well as the Enhanced Listening Mode in the Navigation and Traversal accessibility menu if finding these things means a lot to you.

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The Last Of Us 2 Training Manuals Guide: Where To Find Every Upgrade

In the world of The Last of Us Part 2, finding supplements can help you build new skills to do all kinds of things, from developing more efficient crafting to improving your stealth capabilities. But earning those skills first requires that you first unlock them by discovering Training Manuals, books that impart new knowledge to Ellie so she can start to hone her new abilities.

The thing is, many of those Training Manuals require some scavenging to discover, and are often hidden off the beaten path. To help you out, we’ve tracked down every Training Manual in The Last of Us Part 2, to help you grab every skill and earn a variety of Trophies. Check out the full list below. It’s worth noting that it’s possible you might find Training Manuals in places we haven’t marked–it seems The Last of Us Part 2’s items are somewhat dynamic, and if you miss a manual at one location, it might appear further into the game in another. That said, we’ve definitely located manuals at all these places, and if you follow our guide, you should too.

There’s tons of more coverage of The Last of Us Part 2 for your enjoyment now that the game is out. Check out our big The Last of Us Part II guide roundup, which includes our spoiler-free complete walkthrough. You’ll also want to check out our The Last of Us Part 2 review, which comes in non-spoilery and more-spoilery versions.

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The Last Of Us 2 Weapons Guide: Where To Find Every Gun

Note: We’ve gone out of our way not to include spoilers for anything that happens in The Last of Us Part 2, but looking at any photos or reading any descriptions might give away plot details you’d rather now know. If you’re hoping to remain completely unspoiled, we recommend playing through the game first.

Scouring the post-apocalyptic cities of The Last of Us Part 2 will uncover all kinds of crafting materials–things you can use to build bombs, health kits, ammunition, and more. But all that scavenging will also often help you find more than just alcohol and empty plastic bottles. You’ll also often come across something a little better: additional firearms and weapons that can give you an edge against the many foes you’ll face along the way, both infected and human.

We’ve outlined where you can find every weapon in The Last of Us Part 2, to help make sure you find every advantage (and unlock the High Caliber Trophy). Though we’re marking where we found these weapons, it’s worth noting that The Last of Us 2 seems pretty dynamic–if you miss one, you might find another copy somewhere else. Follow our guide and you’re guaranteed to find every one, however.

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The Last Of Us 2 Walkthrough – Part 4: Seattle Day 2 (Spoiler-Free)

Warning: We’ve done everything we can to minimize spoilers in this walkthrough so you can enjoy the game even if you need help finding collectibles. However, if you want to know nothing about the game before playing, you should stop reading now.

Our spoiler-free walkthrough for The Last of Us Part 2 continues below. We’ll help you find every collectible, story item, weapon, and upgrade–without spoiling the story or any encounters. Find everything you need to know below, all of Seattle Day 2.

We’ve got a lot more guide coverage of The Last of Us Part 2 for your reference now that the game is out. For more parts of the walkthrough, be sure to check the list below. We’ll be publishing the other parts throughout the next day, so we recommend bookmarking our The Last of Us Part II guide roundup, which we’ll keep updated with the latest walkthroughs and guides as they get posted. Be mindful of the spoiler block text in the list below, as the names for Parts 6 through 9 can be considered spoilers for early players.

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NHL 21 Wasn’t Announced At EA Play Live, But Hockey Fans Should Not Worry

EA’s big E3-style announcement event, EA Play Live 2020, brought a lot of news about Madden NFL 21 and FIFA 21, but the company’s other big sports game–NHL 21–wasn’t mentioned at all.

The game’s community manager said on Twitter that there is no reason to worry. The game is coming, and it’s expected to be the franchise’s best skate forward yet, the developer said.

This is nothing new or unusual, as EA typically focuses on Madden and FIFA during its E3 events, and leaves NHL for a later date.

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Madden 21 And FIFA 21 Look Stunning In These New 4K Images

EA Sports has shared new images of Madden NFL 21 and FIFA 21 following EA Play Live, where the games were shown off and discussed. The new “4K” images were posted on EA’s website, and the description says they represent “game engine footage.”

One of the Madden NFL 21 images shows superstar QB Tom Brady in his new Tampa Bay Buccaneers jersey following his trade from New England to Tampa Bay. His image is meant to showcase the game’s new environmental effects–in this case, it’s the rain specifically. The image also highlights how jerseys will be affected by rain; you can see the impact on the cloth of Brady’s jersey here.

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The other images show how, once again, EA is highlighting perspiration to help demonstrate a new level of fidelity with the sports games. In one of the FIFA 21 images, we see the outside of Liverpool FC’s home field, Anfield, with fans taking selfies. This is presumably meant to demonstrate how FIFA 21 will feature an “unprecedented matchday experience” encompassing elements beyond the sport itself.

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The Last of Us 2 Collectibles Guide Chapter 2: Seattle Day 1 – Downtown

This portion of The Last of Us Part Two guide includes all collectible locations in Chapter 2: Seattle Day 1 – Downtown. This includes all Artifacts, Trading Cards, Safes, Workbenches, Weapons, and Journal Entries. Remember that you can revisit any chapter section to replay an area and collect missing items by returning to the main menu and selecting a chapter once you have completed it.

Downtown Collectibles Overview

View the sections below to locate a collectible. Due to the open-ended nature of this area, these items will be listed in a somewhat straightforward order, starting with optional areas, and then story-required areas.

  • Artifacts: 18
  • Trading Cards: 5
  • Journal Entries: 2
  • Workbenches: 1
  • Safes: 3

Artifact – FEDRA Census Document

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You can find this right as you finish The Gate mission and Downtown begins. After you reach East Gate 2 (aka the Fuck FEDRA Gate), you’ll be tasked with finding gasoline for a nearby generator. Nearby on the left is a small gatehouse, and you can search inside for a note in a drawer.

Artifact – Cache Hunter Note

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Located across the river from where you first enter the large downtown field, look for a small isolated ruined building floor just outside the Westlake Bank building off to the left, and you’ll find a skeleton with a bag that holds a note regarding the nearby bank.

Artifact – Bank Heist Plans

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This document can be found at the Westlake Bank, which is located on the left side of the large open field (the southwest building on the downtown map). Once you enter the ruins and drop down into the bank entrance. Defeat the lurking infected and then enter the safety deposit box room, where you’ll find a dead  body and a bag that holds the note.

Bank Vault Safe and Weapon: Pump Shotgun

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Also located at the bank, use the note from the dead body with the bank heist plans to open the nearby vault, using the code 60, 23, 06, and enter to find another dead body holding a shotgun.

Artifact – Bank Robber Letter

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Located in the bank vault – which can be opened using the note outside the vault (60, 23, 06), look on the large main table inside the vault to find a note left by the trapped robber.

Artifact – Antique Ring

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This artifact doubles as a trophy, and can be found in the bank’s vault. Enter the vault using the note found outside (the code is 60, 23, 06), and once inside, look in the back right corner behind a table full of money to find an open deposit box that has a small ring inside.

Artifact – Letter From Isaac

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Further west up the hill past the bank, move down a slope from a collapsed building to find a small plaza with a tank that Dina points out. In the rubble in a corner behind the tank you can find a skeleton holding a bag that contains a note.

Trading Card – Doctor Uckmann

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Just to the east of the domed synagogue, you can find a skeletal corner of a building with a few walls and stairway still standing. Climb up the stairs, and break open the windows to move along the outer platforms of the building, allowing you to run and jump to cross the gap to continue climbing to the third floor of the building’s remains. At the top you’ll find WLF inscribed on the wall, along with many supplies – including scrap, supplements, and a trading card in a drawer.

Training Manual – Crafting Skills

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Look along the destroyed freeway – now a river – to see a section of an on-ramp with a firetruck above a small section of a broken platform with an overturned truck. Head to the ramp via the west side and climb onto a nearby truck to jump onto the ramp where the firetruck is.

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On the right side of the truck you can find rope attached to the firetruck, and can use it to rappel down halfway, before using R1 to begin swinging to the broken platform where the truck has overturned. Keep swinging to gain momentum before jumping to the platform, and search the tipped over truck for supplements, scrap, food, and a training manual!

Artifact – Informant Letter

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Along the freeway-turned-river, you can find a caravan of FEDRA trucks that were ambushed by WLF. In the middle of the river is a truck you can open to find several skeletons of officers, and will also hold items like scrap and a letter.

Trading Card – Das Wort

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Located inside the music shop near the Synagogue, look behind the main front counter when you enter the shop for a drawer next to the cash register where this trading card is hiding.

Workbench Location – Tent Near Music Shop

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There are plenty of supplies and a workbench off to the side, in an elevated grass area near the music shop, and north of the domed synagogue. You can reach the spot by exiting the music shop on the second floor and crossing the outpost bridge, or squeezing through a nearby gate.

Artifact – Street Drawing

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Head to the left of the tent (across from the music store) and open the drawer in the small outpost bridge over the street for a sketch.

Journal – Street View

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After picking up the sketch, look out at the view to add a sketch of Shimmer as a journal entry.

Artifact – WLF Safe House Supply Note

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At the corner of 5th and Spring St, north of the Courthouse, you can find a small place called Ruston Coffee that has breakable windows. Enter through the windows after breaking them out to find several supplies, including scrap, ammo, and a supply note.

Trading Card – Big Blue

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Also located inside Ruston Coffee, check in the drawers below the coffee machine in the back of the front room to find a trading card.

Artifact – Pet Store Keys

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Head to the back of the coffee shop and be prepared to eliminate an Infected waiting in the last stall. Once the enemy is dealt with, turn your attention to the fold out changing station, where a key with a dog bone tag has been left behind, revealing the address of the shop it’s used to unlock – which isn’t all that far from where you are.

Artifact – WLF Community Supply Chest Note

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Just to the south of the Courthouse, and a bit east of Gate West 2, look for some stairs across from a US Flag between 5th and 6th avenue leading up to a building, and along the walkway you’ll find some containers and a bag with a note inside.

Artifact – Join WLF Note

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This piece of literature is located inside Barkos Pet Shop (which has been converted into a WLF safehouse). To enter, you’ll need to find a key, which is located in the bathroom at Ruston Coffee (at the corner of 5th and Spring).

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The key has the address of the shop (in a back alley at 6th an Marion), and inside you can find a printer with stacks of propaganda you can check out – as well as plenty of supplies and a stun bomb.

Upgrade – Long Gun Holster

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Also located inside Barkos Pet Shop is a gun holster – but you’ll need to claim the key from Ruston Coffee’s bathroom.

Trading Card / Safe – Flo

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Locate the Gate West 2 below the Courthouse at Madison and 5th, and squeeze through the open gate to find a safe with the note “use Gate Code” consult your notes to find the list of codes and enter 04, 51. The safe will contain a ton of scrap, supplements, ammo, health, and a trading card.

Artifact – Emergency Protocols Memo

This collectible may appear in two different locations based on our experiences with multiple playthroughs, but their potential locations are fairly near to each other:

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At the entrance to the Ration Distribution Center (Synagogue), you can find a ladder leading up to a command post looking down on the field below. Search the lookout posts to find a note in one of the drawers.

If it does not appear here, you may have to search for it inside the Synagogue. After climbing the trolley cart to reach the upper section of the Ration Distribution Center / Synagogue you’ll be facing some tables. To the left of the little TV/monitor is an artifact in the form of an Emergency Protocols Memo.

Journal Entry – Hebrew Calendar

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After using the rope to swing to the other balcony (on the 2nd floor) of the synagogue turned ration distribution center (where you found the gas can), head into the office. Interact with the calendar on the wall for a journal entry.

Artifact – Rabbi Saunder’s Letter

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In the Synagogue, use the trolley to reach the second level, and swing across towards the ledge with the open window – and enter the Rabbi’s room on the side. Look behind the desk for a drawer for a letter from the Rabbi.

Artifact – Plea to a Friend

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After getting through the initial floor of the courthouse, head downstairs and Interact with the decaying bodies for an artifact.

Artifact – Lt. Torres’ Final Memorandum

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On the first floor of the Courthouse where the Fedra officers were executed, look to the left for a window into the Bailiff’s Office, and break it open to head inside. At the far end is another executed officer, and by taking the machete out of his chest, you’ll find a note tucked away into his shirt.

Artifact – List of Known WLF Agitators

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Also in the Bailiff’s Office on the first floor lobby of the Courthouse, check the cabinets to the left of the dead officer to find a note on WLF instigators.

Courthouse Safe

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The last of three safes in Downtown can be found in Bailiff’s Office on the first floor lobby of the courthouse. Enter via the windows and look on the whiteboard above a dead officer to find the code for the safe – located below the desk you hopped over to get in. The code is 86, 07, 22 – and contains various scrap and supplements.

Artifact – WLF Recruiter Journal

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This artifact can be found after getting the gasoline and opening up the gate to the Serevena Hotel. Once inside, defeat the infected and then move up to the second floor, entering the suite straight from the stairs. Open a drawer in the second room under a TV to find the note.

Trading Card – Know It All

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Also located in the Serevena Hotel, enter room 216 – the same room with the WLF Recruiter Journal note, and look in the drawer between the two beds to find a trading card.

Looking for more Collectibles in The Last of Us Part Two? Find even more artifacts and trading cards in Chapter 2’s The Gate, Eastbrook Elementary, Capitol Hill, Channel 13, The Tunnels, The Theater, and The Birthday Gift. Be sure to also check out our complete The Last of Us 2 Collectible Hub to find every secret in every chapter and location.

The Last Of Us Part 2 Weapon Workbench Locations – Where To Find Every Workbench

Note: We’ve gone out of our way not to include spoilers for anything that happens in The Last of Us Part 2, but looking at any photos or reading any descriptions might give away plot details you’d rather now know. If you’re hoping to remain completely unspoiled, we recommend playing through the game first and using this guide with the Chapter Select menu or New Game Plus to find everything.

There are 25 Workbenches scattered throughout The Last of Us Part 2, and they can be pretty essential to your survival. They’re the only places that you can use gun parts you scavenge throughout the game to upgrade your weapons. What’s more, finding and using every Workbench in the game unlocks a Trophy you’ll need if you want to get Platinum for The Last of Us Part 2. Here’s every single Workbench in the game, divided by chapter, to help you get the most out of your weapons and stay alive as you seek revenge.

There’s tons of more coverage of The Last of Us Part 2 for your enjoyment now that the game is out, including the first part of this walkthrough. You can check out the rest of the walkthrough, as well as a suite of other guides in our huge The Last of Us Part II guide roundup–which also includes some essential tips you should know. If you’re curious about how the game stacks up, check out our The Last of Us Part II review.

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