Hey, I appreciate the work you do here with this community so I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt on some of the issues with your post, but I also want to correct the record on those issues.
IGN did not suddenly invent the idea that RE5 had racist undertones. That accusation existed from as early as the game's release in 2009. And it doesn't exist in a vacuum but ties into a recurring observation that western media has very often treated non-western cultures as savage hellscapes, and its inhabitants as demonic predators (see early American Westerns). The fact that IGN gave the game a 9 on release and now acknowledges its issues is not a sign of hypocritical woke fever but that a niche dialogue has been elevated to higher prominence in the past 15 years.
Interestingly, the article at the link above actually directly addresses the distinction between RE4's setting and RE5's that you reference.
As for Cliffhanger games...you kind of did make that up. Lalonders's actual quote:
“I’m not saying white people are creating unsafe environments, I’m saying sometimes it’s hard to work with white people because sometimes they think something is okay, but it’s really a microaggression."
Is this racist? Maybe. Certainly it's discriminatory, but it sounds way more like a reaction to poor past experiences than it does like anything malicious.
More importantly, you claim that Lalonders "of Cliffhanger Games has gone on record that the studio [implying Cliffhanger] will not hire white people." Except the quote from Lalonders is from 2021, when they were working on a different game at Veritable Joy Studios.