Tag Archives: Dave Gilbert

by | 26/05/2025 · 6:37 pm

GAME REVIEW – Old Skies (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Old Skies is a point-and-click adventure game designed by Dave Gilbert and published by his independent studio Wadjet Eye Games. Having collaborated with other indie developers in recent years, this is his first personal project since Unavowed in 2018. Featuring 1080p hand-drawn graphics by artist Ben Chandler, an original score by composer Thomas Regin and professional voice acting from a large cast, Old Skies recently launched on PC, Mac and Linux after almost six years in development and will soon arrive on Nintendo Switch.

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by | 05/09/2018 · 8:28 pm

GAME REVIEW – Unavowed (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Unavowed is the new game from Dave Gilbert – creator of the critically acclaimed Blackwell adventure game series – and Wadjet Eye Games (Shardlight, Technobabylon). Described as an ‘urban fantasy adventure’, players take control of the latest member of an underground group of supernatural guardians known as the Unavowed, investigating the unknown and fighting evil in a perpetually rainy New York City.

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by | 05/01/2015 · 11:01 pm

GAME REVIEW – The Blackwell Epiphany (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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The Blackwell Epiphany is the fifth and final instalment in the Blackwell series of indie point-and-click adventure games from Dave Gilbert and Wadjet Eye Games. Rosangela Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone (described in AMO’s 2011 review of The Blackwell Deception as “an adventure gaming duo made in heaven”) embark on their final investigation and end up facing their most dangerous foe yet – an unseen force that literally tears souls apart before they can be saved.

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by | 21/11/2013 · 9:20 pm

GAME REVIEW – The Shivah: Kosher Edition (PC, iOS)

By Marty Mulrooney

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The Shivah: Kosher Edition is a newly remastered version of the critically acclaimed 2006 adventure game The Shivah created by Dave Gilbert and Wadjet Eye Games. Players take control of world-weary Jewish New Yorker Russell Stone, a financially struggling rabbi who becomes tangled up in the murder investigation of a former member of his congregation. The Shivah: Kosher Edition is now available for download on PC and iOS (iPad/iPhone/iPod touch).

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