Looks like the new GameBoy is coming to grubby little hands everywhere. And sooner than I thought, too!

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo Co. said it will launch its latest hand-held game player, the cell-phone sized GameBoy Micro, in Japan on Sept. 13 and the United States on Sept. 19.

The company is expanding its portable offerings in part to counter sinking sales of its Nintendo GameCube amid rival offerings such as Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news).’s PlayStation and Microsoft Corp.’s
Xbox.

The GameBoy Micro, to be priced at $109 in Japan and $99.99 in the United States, has a two-inch screen and comes in four colors — black, silver, blue or purple, the company said Thursday. [Read the rest]