I too was thinking about the trailer for Resident Evil 5 like Ehren, in particular his mentioning of the comment one YouTube poster made regarding the fact that Americans are not who actually created the game. This raises an interesting question for me, as the creation of the game came out of minds that do not necessarily equate to an American sensibility. Put another way, Japanese sensitivities to racism likely are much different than an Americans. I'm not even sure how to pose a question for this, I guess it was interesting to see another layer of the onion peeled back to where I could see a new language or cultural issue in gaming. Can we even interrogate how a Japanese cultural mindset influenced the creation of the game, or does the way that the game manifests itself when played by an American tell us something about American culture, and by that I mean that the Japanese designers/marketers of the game I assume have a very good understanding of the American consumer public--so does the game open our eyes to something we can't see b/c we're so close to it in our daily lives?

I guess one other thing I saw in the trailer was that games do not speak a universal language. Whereas HTML code, CSS, C+ or other programming codes are universal and can be understood across languages (English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, etc), the languages I bracketed cannot be understood in a universal sense like computer language. My question is whether once people become involved in computers and technology, in particular gaming, do their thoughts/interrogations about their language practices take on a universal scope--i.e. since I'm operating in the gaming world where programming languages are universal do I then presume that my regular discourse language (I'm not sure that makes sense) takes on a universal quality as well?