Investigators said seven pallets of games -- which included 16,000 copies of "Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway" for the PlayStation 3 -- were stolen from a truck while the driver was resting, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

Officers spotted falsified license plates on the truck being used by the thieves and it was impounded along with the video games. However, before the truck and games could be tested for fingerprinted and DNA, it was stolen from a police depot.

The truck was later found abandoned -- and empty -- in a Bradley, England, parking lot.

"We are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry, including eBay transactions where a number of the games have been potentially identified as being advertised for sale. Arrests have already been made in respect of this," a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for video game creator Ubi Soft said the company is working to replace the stolen games.