Riot Games launched League of Legends last September and since then the free-to-play multiplayer RTS game has been busy refining its gameplay and adding small amounts of new content. This week the game will add some holiday-themed content for its players in an event they are calling the Snowdown Showdown.

Starting today and running through January 6, the game will offer three new Champions skins with a holiday theme like the one you see above. Two more skins will be released in smaller time periods; one from December 23-27 and the other from December 31 to January 31. Six new holiday runes will also be released during the entire Snowdown Showdown event. Finally the winter-themed map in the game will be replaced with the Snowdown Rift map that will naturally have lots of holiday-themed art. We've added some screenshots of the level to our League of Legends screenshot gallery