It said 14 million people regularly played online games in China, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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Most teens have played them at some point, although only 8 percent regularly play violent games like Doom or Duke Nukem.

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"It did take a bit of time to settle in, it was the first time I'd started to play regularly, at Chester I'd only ever played around 20 games a season so it was hard at first, " Rutherford added.

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