Gaming’s Whacked Out Week: ‘Grand Theft Auto Online’ Brings us Snowball Fights TO THE DEATH

On Christmas 1914, British and German soldiers decided to stop the whole ‘killing each other in the freaking face' thing they had going on. Briefly. They emerged from the trenches and met in No Man's Land, to talk, smoke and (presumably) share crackers with shit jokes in. There were even friendly soccer matches between the soldiers.

Soon afterwards, they were back at it again. But with poison gas and other new and improved bastardly ways to kill each other. Nevertheless, for a brief moment, the spirit of the Christmastastic even permeated World War One. A lil' bit.

A century later, an equally unlikely, equally brief peace erupted in Grand Theft Auto Online. Because sometimes, even the most hardened drug dealers and pimps want to put down their guns and have a good ol' fashioned snowball fight.

As with last Christmas, heavy snowfall blanketed Los Santos this week. Snowball fights are now possible, and it all looks innocent enough at first glance. In reality, though, they're as vicious as any bust-up betwixt rival drug gangs. Snowballs deal damage to players, and can also cause probably the most embarrassing death Grand Theft Auto has ever seen. Hit Kotaku for that one.