February has quite a bit going on for the PlayStation 3 and offers two notable games for the PlayStation Portable. Before I jump into the titles coming out aside from the ongoing add-ons for the stellar LittleBigPlanet I’d just like to highlight that Sony is continuing its credit card promotion that gives you $100 off the console.

On to the games, starting with the exclusives for each platform: Flower, Noby Noby Boy, Killzone 2, LocoRoco 2, and Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?

PS3 Exclusives:

February 12th: The spiritual successor to Flow, by Jenova Chen, arrives this month as Flower. A great family-friendly followup to Flow for those whose family life isn’t already dominated by LittleBigPlanet, Flower looks both relaxing and beautiful to play. It also makes me want spring to get here already. Flower will be $9.99 and as a game certified by SCE since January 1st it most definitely has Trophies. Flow has a special place in my heart – I taught my older daughter to play videogames with it using its tilt-only one-button control scheme to introduce the SIXAXIS controller. My older daughter took one look at the video preview and has since been asking when it will be out.

February 19th: Noby Noby Boy is a smaller, $5 PSN game from the creator of Katamari Damacy. The art style is strongly reminiscent of the Katamari Damacy series but the gameplay is rather unusual. There is some form of online leaderboard support, although the details on it are a bit weird. It’s also got Trophies that are all considered secrets for you to discover. I’m a huge fan of the Katamari games so this one will be a buy for me and might also be good to play with my kids.

February 27th: Killzone 2 explodes onto store shelves late this month and early reviews and previews frankly look stunning for this long-awaited shooter. Penny Arcade got into the beta a while back and heaped praise on the beta (censoring courtesy of me): “the Killzone 2 Beta is serious [bleep]ing business. Guerilla Games has mastered the hardware, and their uncanny grip on first-person perspective is still unparalleled“ and Torgo on the PS Nation podcast wouldn’t stop talking about just the multiplayer. The Helghast never looked so good and the action never looked so brutal, but we’ll be able to find out for ourselves when a demo drops the day before it hits retail. And while the developers plan to patch in co-op play after launch the game will ship with bot support in multiplayer. I plan to pick this one up, but probably not right away. I still have a couple of shooters I can’t put down just yet.

PSP Exclusives:

The PlayStation Portable gets two games of note this month.

February 10th: LocoRoco 2 arrives at the bargain price of $19.99 and while puzzlers in general put me to sleep regardless of platform, this interview details what the game’s about compared to the tilt and hop, upbeat musically catchy original game.

February 17th: A spinoff from the much-loved Disgaea series called Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? features a prinny as a main character. The prinnies in the Disgaea universe – the human-sized penguin party members that selflessly explode if thrown at enemies, among other things – could be the most unusual videogame character to get a spinoff. I’d read that your character dies with one hit — something the gameplay footage doesn’t seem to show — but you do get 1000 lives to make up for it. Factor in funny writing, even in the ads leading up to it, and this could be a nice franchise of its own. It’ll be available here in a variety of deluxe boxed sets too with items you’d normally only get in Japan.

PS3 Cross-Platform:

Here’s what’s headed our way this month in the cross-platform category.

Feb 5th: The Burnout Paradise Party Pack add-on adds pass-the-controller party modes as well as corresponding Trophies. We’ll also see a Resident Evil 5 demo on the PlayStation Store.

Feb 6th: Burnout Paradise will be patched to tweak difficulties as well as add a new race replay option that gamers have been clamoring for from the beginning.

Feb 10th: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin shows up in your peripheral vision to scare you (trailer ) along with something with broader appeal, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection (trailer), and a scantily clad swordswoman headlining X-Blades as a cartoony cross between God of War and Devil May Cry (trailer).

Feb 12th brings us big-headed sports back from the 16-bit days with EA’s 3 On 3 NHL Arcade release.

Feb 17th is the long-awaited debut of Street Fighter IV. I’m not a fighter fan so I have no idea how good this one really looks.

Feb 24th will see the launch of Godfather II. I enjoyed my rental of the original game but found it somewhat limited. There are new features in this one so we’ll see how it fares.

Feb 26th looks to bring the next big puzzle-RPG fusion game to the PSN. Puzzle Quest: Galactrix is on the docket and you can get a taste of it via the PC demo now available for Windows. It’s definitely a few steps forward from the original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords game but I’d rather have it on my PSP.