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If you thought Call of Duty had realistic graphics, you haven’t seen the life-sized statue of one of the game’s characters standing guard at the offices of Los Angeles-based game studio, Robotoki.

The LAPD sure has, however -- and it nearly resulted in a shootout.

Late Thursday night, police stormed Robotoki’s office in response to a panic alarm, leading to a tense 15-minute standoff with a perfectly harmless statue of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s Simon “Ghost" Riley, reports Polygon.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Credit: Atari)One of gaming’s greatest mysteries might soon be uncovered.

You’ve likely heard the tale before: Millions of unsold copies of the disastrous ET: The Extraterrestrial game for the Atari 2600 lie buried in a New Mexico landfill. Despite a slew of believers and evidence supporting the story, doubters remain. But in the next few months, we'll have the answer once and for all.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Credit: Bioware)The history of Star Wars games is filled with hits and misses. For every Battlefront, there's a Masters of Teras Kasi.

But Bioware's Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003, has always stood head and shoulders above the rest -- and now it's coming to the mobile gaming world.

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By Michelle Starr, CNET

There are already a few ways you can make Lego robotics, including Lego Mindstorms -- the latest iteration of which includes support for smartphone control -- and, more recently, a Kickstarter campaign to get Raspberry Pi in on the action. The toy company, however, seems to be seeking new ways to make Lego robotics accessible.

The latest is a collaboration with Sony to create a range of bricks called "Toy Alive" aimed at keeping kids interested in Legos in the age of video games. Unveiled at an open house at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo, the bricks are embedded with various electronics that can be controlled with a PlayStation controller, including motors for mobility, actuators that can destroy Lego creations, and tiny cameras that can broadcast to tablets and smartphones.

(Credit: Getty Image News)Monopoly is one of the most beloved board games of all time, so you'd think we'd all know how to play it correctly.

Turns out we don't.

Perhaps because so many people learn the game from their parents, siblings and friends, no one has bothered to read the actual rules for a while. But according to an old blog post dug up by Buzzfeed, reading the rules actually changes the game in a big way.

(Credit: 22Cans)Peter Molyneux is more than a legendary video game developer. It turns out he's also equal parts Willy Wonka and Ryan Seacrest.

Six months ago, Molyneux released an experimental game named Curiosity to the app store . The game was simply a giant virtual cube that millions of players could pick away at. Molyneux teased that the cube held a "life-changing" prize for the lucky person who reached the center. This weekend, that prize was revealed: God status in Molyneux's next game, Godus. And the winner was an 18-year old from Edinburgh, Scotland.

(Credit: GameStop)Video game retailer GameStop saw its stock take a mighty tumble after Microsoft's Xbox One was announced earlier this week. Much of the stock's fall can be attributed to what some see as a sea change in the used game market, something that GameStop has dominated for years.

Investor concern appears to be due to a report published on MCV stating that Microsoft has negotiated a deal with retailers which sell used games. The deal would ensure that “publishers -- and Microsoft itself -- will get a cut of the lucrative used game market,” according to an earlier report from Yahoo! Games.

Not a video game (Credit: Codemasters)Think $60 is too much for a video game? Then you probably can’t afford the ‘BAC Mono Edition’ of Codemasters' upcoming racer, Grid 2.

The special edition rings in at a tidy £125,000 ($188,700), making it officially the most expensive commercially available video game ever produced. In fact, they only made one of them, presumably because making more than one would be ostentatious.

So what can a couple hundred grand buy you these days? How about a racecar?