I've been contact by about a half dozen small game developers in addition to myself. I can only assume the true number is many times that possibly in the hundreds.
These scum have moved on from litigating agains the big players in the industry to trying to extort the smallest and most vulnerable developers.
My experience is while press releases are valuable marketing tools, press release services are worthless. I've done probably a dozen press releases utilizing some of the expensive services. Not once has a service been directly responsible for a write up or driven any substantial amount of traffic.
Identify your target audience of bloggers and writers and get your press release directly to them.
These scum have moved on from litigating agains the big players in the industry to trying to extort the smallest and most vulnerable developers.
It's truly sickening...