Candy crane, teddy picker, claw machine, whatever you call it, this arcade mainstay was robbing children of their golden tokens long before we slid into our first pair of Hammer pants, but despite the ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...

AS Taiwan's economy becomes mired in the doldrums, claw crane arcades where customers lower a grabber to try to pick up a prize from a glass box are booming as affordable entertainment, while ...

s Taiwan's economy stagnates, claw crane arcades where customers lower a grabber to try to pick up a prize from a glass box are booming as affordable entertainment, while operators see them as a way ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...