Ars Technica has a screenshot of a since-deleted tweet from PR firm
The Redner Group with an overt threat about negative reviews of Duke Nukem Forever, saying: "#AlwaysBetOnDuke too many went too far with their reviews...we r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn't based on today's venom." A
follow-up tweet backs off from this and apologizes: "I have to apologize to the community. I acted out of pure emotion. I will be sending each of you a private apology." A pair of
subsequent tweets stress that this was Redner acting on its own, and that "2K had nothing to do with this." As of this writing the
Metacritic scores for the first-person shooter sequel are
57 for the PC edition,
56 for the Xbox 360 edition, and
48 for the PlayStation 3 edition.