There Raiden shall lie for the years to come, plastered over by more adverts and sleeping like an Arthurian legend, waiting for gaming’s darkest hour to come and rising up to meet it with Metal Gear Rising 2: Die Hard With a Revengeance. When video games need him the most, the giant handsome robot man will return.

With Resident Evil 2 returning this month and reimagining Raccoon City as a deadlier hive of the undead, we started to thinking about the most important things in life: Which weapon would we want with us if we were ever stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse? When it comes guns, swords and all manner of exotic tools of destruction, video games have never been short on ideas for death dealers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same as the video games of the last decade still had one time-honoured tradition up their sleeves: A good ol’fashioned boss fight! Whether you were slugging away at glorified bullet sponges or trying to outlast juggernauts that were capable of laughing at your mightiest attacks, here’s a look at some of the best and most satisfying boss fights of the decade.

Metal Gear Rising is finally avaliable on a current-gen console, thanks to Microsoft's Xbox 360 backwards compatibility program.

One game had the courage. One video game had the balls to warn us that the unstoppable danger of Donald Trump was in the air.

Maybe the latest Steam sale can give me a few pointers towards being even sneakier. Being bastardier, shouldn’t be too difficult, something that I’m certain that I can handle on my own.

Konami is making sure people don't forget about Metal Gear, and have already started work on a brand new one.

Was that a Metal Gear Rising tease at the Taipei Games Show? Apparently not.