For the 1st time this year Super Smash Bros 4 director Masahiro Sakurai is taking a break from the upcoming game's "Pic of the Day" series but has promised to be back in the New Year.

"The pic of the day that runs Monday through Friday will be on break starting Dec. 27. I'll be back on Jan. 6, so I hope everyone has a happy new year!!" Sakurai posted on the Miiverse forum.

The image posted in the meantime appears to be a new level that showcases a battlefield floating in the clouds. The SSB emblem is seen on torn flags in the background. See the image here.

Earlier this week, Sakurai announced the addition of another princess to the game, Zelda.

Princess Zelda, the namesake of the Legend of Zelda franchise, is the Princess Peach to Link's Mario.

This is Zelda's third appearance in the series after being introduced in SSB Melee for the Gamecube.

See screenshots of her here.

Zelda has always had the ability to transform into an alternate character named Sheik in both games prior, but in the new screenshots there does not seem to be any indication of this. Perhaps Nintendo is keeping a few things under-wraps.

Last week Nintendo President Satoru Iwata introduced a new character to the series, Princess Rosalina with Luma, during the Nintendo Direct conference.

He played a trick with a trailer as it showed the racers of Mario Kart 8 which then turns into a SSB4 trailer. Kirby and the other racers stop dead in their tracks as Rosalina with her star side-kick Luma, appear in the middle of the track.

Princess Rosalina is from Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii, and she will also be in Mario Kart 8 if the dual trailer is indeed a revealing.

SSB4 is expected in spring of 2014 although Nintendo has not officially announced the date.