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American accents are everywhere in video games. Even when something is developed in Canada, or Britain, or Japan, the principal characters usually speak with one kind of American accent or another.https://www.kotaku.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/16/pgroup-googlepublishercentre-kotbrandmark.png?quality=7510001080