As the title of this posts suggests, the Ultra Shoryuken Costume Pack Available on PSN Today and Xbox Live Tomorrow. This pack includes new costumes for Dan, Akuma, Gouken, Ryu and Ken.

Here’s are the new Super Street Fighter IV alternate costumes for Akuma, Vega, M. Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Gouken. I gotta say I’m impressed. Akuma looks demonic. Vega looks like a Spanish dancer. Bison is look like he will “royally” kick your @$$. Balrof is looking gangsta. Sagat got a throwback to before Ryu got all up in his chest. And Gouken is rocking the monk look. What do you guys think. Which is your favorite?

Capcom has dropped some new Super Street Fighter IV avatars for the Playstation Network. The set includes Gen, Gouken, E. Honda, Adon and Rufus. Each will set you back about $0.49. So do you plan on grabbing one of these?

Are you familiar with “resets”? Well this is how S-Kill describes them…

A reset is basically a variation on a combo. It’s interesting because while a “reset combo” does less damage than you could do by completing your combo normally, it sets up a *new* chance to do even more damage (usually by leaving you in a surprising position where the opponent will fail to block).

Why would you want to do this? Well, resets are often important because of damage scaling. Damage scaling is the well-known effect where every subsequent hit in a big combo does less and less damage, and sometimes gets to the point where even an Ultra Combo will only do a few pixels. By using a reset, you are basically trading a little bit of guaranteed damage for a % chance at doing even more damage.

Resets give you a chance to bypass damage scaling by technically letting your opponent out of the initial combo and setting them up for a new, separate combo. Since it’s a new combo that they technically could have blocked, every hit of the new combo does far more damage. This makes resets very valuable, unless, of course, your opponent KNOWS you’re going for a reset, in which case it makes them pretty easy to block. That’s why you want to use a variety of different and sexy resets to keep your opponent guessing.

A side benefit of resets, apart from the damage, is their ability to really mess with your opponent’s head. If you can land one or two of these in a row, you can turn even seasoned pros into drooling goons wondering “wtf just happened?!”

Sounds cool right? Well a guy who goes by the name of Phunkism created a nice video showing off some resets with Gouken. Check it out below.

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In case you are interested the Super Shoryuken Pack was released today for Super Street Fighter IV. The pack includes new costumes for Ryu, Dan, Gouken, Ken and Akuma. (more…)

A lot of people were complaining about Akuma‘s second ultra. Honestly it doesn’t bother me that much. I honestly thought they would have changed Gouken‘s first ultra somehow though as Ryu has the same ultra now, except Ryu’s looks much better.