 Backbreaker was developed by the British NaturalMotion Games , Ltd. and published by 505 Games . The game 's development heads were Todd Gibbs and Dave Proctor , and the lead producers were Rob Donald and Matt Sherman . Development began in Summer 2007 , and ended in June 2010 . A game demo was released on 21 May 2010 for Xbox LIVE gold players and 28 May 2010 for silver players . When announcing the release date for the PlayStation 3 demo , the developers only commented that it would be released " soon " . However , communication errors with Sony 's PlayStation Network caused the demo to be delayed until 15 June 2010 , two weeks after the North American release . 
