Culture

Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt celebrates the innovative and rapidly changing design field of videogames. The exhibition explores videogame design since the mid-2000s, when major technological advancements – such as increased access to broadband, social media and newly available means of making – transformed the way games are designed, discussed and played.

January is my least favourite time of the year to make resolutions. There are only about five minutes of sunlight each day, it’s cold, and my birthday falls when sensible people are doing dry January and are poor after Christmas. This mindset has contributed to a healthy disregard for the selfhelp and motivational book but that is not to say I am entirely pessimistic. I thought I could offer a little balance to the relentless optimism we are all meant to be feeling at the start of the new year.

In February, Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition will open at 26 Leake Street on London’s South Bank. It will contain items on loan from the Royal House of Mandela. In the UK, Promoting the opening on an unusually warm autumn Monday was Mandela’s grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela. Toby Hambly went to meet him.