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.
Disgusting, but it's only natural. The little guys don't have the resources to fight it out in court and keep their heads above water, so trolls can extort a small settlement or licensing fee from them. Ironically analogous to trolls in fairy tales that would extort characters under dubious pretense.
Trolls are weak against fire and acid. Just sayin'.
Indeed, hypothetically, if a tiny game developer had gotten such a letter, they would probably be asking their friendly lawyer to find a moment to advise them, rather than saying anything publicly. I suspect a great many such extortion letters have been sent; let's hope they sent so many that the combined defense will be enough.
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...