Recorded just before they headed off to Taipei for the tech oasis that is Computex 2024, this week's episode of the TT Show sees Jak and Kosta discuss the latest news in gaming, tech, and science. Kicking off with Jak's impressions of Hellblade 2 (which he calls the best-looking game he's ever seen), the duo digs into Valve's next game - Deadlock.

Although it hasn't been officially announced, the next major release from the company behind Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Steam is significant news - even in leaked screenshot form. The game is described as a mix between the hero shooting of Overwatch and the MOBA lane-based gameplay of DOTA 2.

In the world of GPUs, AMD Anti-Lag 2 sees Team Red's latency reduction tech finally return after it was controversially disabled last year. This time, the tech requires game-specific integration, debuting in Counter-Strike 2 in Technical Preview form. In other Radeon news, FSR 3 Frame Generation makes its PS5 and Xbox Series X, bringing triple-digit performance to consoles.

Seeing AVerMedia's X'Tra Go GC515 Capture Dock at Computex 2024 was one of those products that immediately felt perfect - it filled a gap while doing it in a way that made you want to get your hands on the final product. We're huge fans of AVerMedia's external and internal capture cards, especially its recent pair of HDMI 2.1 offerings that excel in performance and features.

When it comes to handhelds like the Steam Deck from Valve and the Windows 11-based ROG Ally from ASUS, the AVerMedia X'Tra Go GC515 Capture Dock acts as a docking solution, charger, and external capture card all-in-one. With up to 4K 30fps recording, it's a fantastic device that offers simple one-button recording to an SD Card, which can also connect directly to a PC for transfer.

AVerMedia brings versatility to the table here. When you add in support for the Nintendo Switch (and its successor, the Nintendo Switch 2), we could see every Nintendo game reviewer on the planet wanting to pick one of these up as soon as possible. High-quality game capture with no additional hardware required.

AMD might not have unveiled its next-gen RDNA 4 GPU architecture at Computex 2024 last week, but Radeon AIB partner PowerColor had an awesome concept Radeon graphics card with a built-in AI NPU that reduces power consumption by up to 20%.

The NPU (Neural Processing Unit) is something we've seen on Intel's current-gen Core Ultra 100 series "Meteor Lake" CPUs, a growing amount of AMD Ryzen CPUs -- and their upcoming Zen 5-based CPUs and APUs -- but now we're seeing graphics cards that will eventually have an NPU inside using AI to do their magic.

PowerColor was using a custom AI NPU chip on a concept graphics card at Computex 2024, separate to the GPU itself, which is capable of adjusting power consumption and fan profiles on-the-fly, reducing power consumption by up to (an impressive) 20% without much of a performance hit (not that you'll notice it at super high FPS, anyway).

With the Steam Deck, ROG Ally X, MSI Claw AI, ZOTAC ZONE, and several other PC gaming handhelds on display at Computex 2024, the prototype XPG NIA gaming handheld we saw from ADATA's gaming-focused brand impressed us with its unique (and forward-thinking) design. It can potentially change the game regarding PC gaming handhelds thanks to its exciting new "foveated rendering functionality."

First up is the display, which can tilt to offer more ergonomic options for gaming on your lap, up the air, or on a surface like a desk or a table. This plays into the ergonomics of the XPG NIA, which felt more comfortable and lightweight than other handhelds, even though the overall weight was similar. This comes down to better weight distribution and the tiltable display.

Under the hood is where it gets interesting; with the XPG NIA set to launch later this year with an ADATA S55 SSD, you can expand up to 2TB. More interestingly, the NIA will ship with expandable CAMM2 memory modules using LPDDR5X technology. There's no word on the chipset, but XPG has confirmed that the NIA will include an AMD Phoenix APU (as seen in the ROG Ally X) with "exclusive foveated rendering functionality."

GIGABYTE had some new GeForce hardware on display at Computex, but the dual-slot GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AI TOP GPU wasn't built to run the latest games. Sporting a blower-fan cooling setup in a stylish silver and metallic shroud is about powerful and secure AI training and tools on a local setup without tapping into the cloud.

It's a complete solution from GIGABYTE. On the software side, you get the AI TOP Utility, AI TOP Software, and AI TOP Tutor. Using popular and powerful open-source models, you can train and query generative AI based on local data sources using powerful GIGABYTE AI TOP hardware that will include additional gear like workstation motherboards, memory, and power supplies.

AI TOP software already supports open-source LLMs, with GIGABYTE explaining that its software and hardware have been designed for professional and home use. This would be awesome to have in a room somewhere to play around with and create different AIs.

We got to check out the new Corsair Custom Lab at Computex 2024. It immediately reminded us of the Xbox Design Lab, which lets you pick and choose various colors and materials to personalize your own Xbox controller. Corsair plans to expand the features and functionality of the Custom Lab in the future, but the service is kicking off by letting you build a custom M75 WIRELESS mouse, a K65 PLUS WIRELESS keyboard, and an MM300 mouse pad.

These are the most recent Corsair peripherals and fantastic boot options. Both earned awards in our recent reviews, with the K65 PLUS WIRELESS keyboard, in particular, being one of the best keyboards Corsair has ever produced. Corsair Custom Lab lets you change the colors of individual keyboard keys and mouse buttons or choose from different styles and templates.

"It's an extension of the player and their personality," Thi La, President and COO at Corsair, says. "With our range of products, combined with Corsair Custom Lab capabilities, users can create and customize an amazing setup that reflects who they are."

At Computex 2024, we got to go hands-on with GIGABYTE products, including its latest display range. GIGABYTE has many vibrant OLED displays available now and on the horizon, including a setup that lets you daisy chain multiple monitors over a single DisplayPort 2.1 connection.

GIGABYTE told us that the AORUS F032U2P, a 4K 240 Hz OLED display, is the world's first DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20 display with an industry-leading 80Gbps bandwidth. This allows you to daisy-chain up to four displays, each with a 4K 120 Hz refresh rate over a single DisplayPort 2.1 cable. Impressive stuff, though it feels like this would work best with a next-gen GeForce RTX 5080 or 5090.

With the shift to OLED for its premium displays, the company announced that its AORUS brand for enthusiast gamers would shift to OLED panel technology for all its displays going forward.

Yesterday, Microsoft and Activision formally unveiled Call of Duty Black Ops 6 to gamers, but this sequel brings some big changes.

Black Ops 6 will require always-online internet connectivity in order to play, Activision has confirmed. This includes all modes of play, even the campaign. The publisher was careful to say that both PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Core are required for online multiplayer, but the campaign can be played without these subscriptions.

The reason? Treyarch's new game uses texture streaming tech to handle Black Ops 6's in-game assets, which are indubitably large--The game clocks in at 300GB worth of data (that's over 1/3rd of a stock PS5 SSD).

Microsoft has reversed course on Windows 11's divisive Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs, making some major changes to help ensure the AI capability doesn't go badly when it launches.

If there's one key thing we've been calling for since Recall was revealed, it was for the feature to be off by default, and fortunately that's one of the sensible moves that Microsoft has implemented here.

Previously, during the setup process for a Copilot+ PC (in preview), the user was introduced to Recall, but not given a straightforward option to switch it off there and then. While there was an introduction to the feature, it was poorly implemented and designed, at least for novice Windows 11 users.

AMD has one of the best CPUs for gaming with its current-gen Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, but we're now expecting next-gen Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series, which will have SKUs that will be powered with 3D V-Cache technology.

But now AMD has spoken with PCGamer about some new CPUs, with AMD's senior technical marketing manager Donny Woligroski saying: "The X3D stuff, we have a lot to say about it. The best part about it is we're not just resting on laurels. We're improving what we can do with X3D, it's really exciting and I'm super looking forward to talking to people about that. It's not like, hey, we've also added X3D to a chip. We are working actively on really cool differentiators to make it even better. We're working on X3D, we're improving it".

If you were expecting to see AMD do what it did last time: slapping second-gen 3D V-Cache to its CPUs this time around, you'd be wrong. AMD has been making improvements to 3D V-Cache, and it seems that we're going to see just what those improvements are -- sorry, 'really cool differentiators' -- when the next-gen Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series X3D processors launch.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will require an absolutely bonkers amount of SSD space on the Xbox Series X/S consoles, requiring a huge 309.8GB of storage.

The news comes from an early spotting of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on the Xbox Store, showing that it requires exactly 309.8GB of space. Frankly, I'm not surprised... we saw a few years ago that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was consuming 200GB+ and then 250GB+ on the PC before some changes were made, but now we're talking about 300GB... one-third of the 1TB SSD inside of the Xbox Series X/S consoles.