Los Angeles - More than 70 percent of teenage American boys have played the violent but popular Grand Theft Auto video and computer games, and they are more likely to have been in a fight than those who have not played, according to a new Gallup poll released on Tuesday.

Although the study showed twice as many boys who had played the criminal adventure game reported having been in a fight in the last year, the survey's authors cautioned that did not prove a link between imagined violence and real-life behaviour.

The Gallup poll found in an online survey of 517 teenagers aged 13 to 17 conducted in August that 71 percent of boys in that age group have played GTA, along with 34 percent of girls.
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