Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a mom of four, Le-An Than is always looking for new ways to entertain her kiddos. After all, there are only so many museums and playgrounds to patronize ...

The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...

SILVERDALE — Ten-year-old Christine Werren beamed with happiness when she walked out of a newly-opened Tokyo-style arcade in Silverdale with a plastic bag of over 10 plushies in it — all were prizes ...

Redondo Beach resident Christina Moat never planned on becoming a claw machine tycoon. But divorce, single motherhood — and the guts to take a chance on something “crazy” — can lead a person to all ...

A controllable claw is capturing the curiosity of casinos and their customers. The Go Go Claw gambling game looks and plays a lot like a crane machine found in an arcade or the entrance to a grocery ...

Detroit Klaws is an arcade with only claw machines. There are different ways to play each machine in the arcade. Players can take home prizes such as kawaii plushies or Detroit professional sports ...

A crane with a claw hand hovers over your desired prize. You're armed with nothing but a joystick to help maneuver it left and right, and a button that drops the claw. It lands as you wait to see if ...

Game lovers in Louisville will soon be able to enjoy an experience unlike any other in the city. Claw Zone, which claims to be Kentucky's first Japanese-style claw machine arcade, is slated to open in ...

Claw machines, or crane games, are a classic feature of any respectable arcade - they're a blast to play but notoriously tricky to conquer. Typically coin-operated, these machines are manipulated ...