Claw machines filled with colorful stuffed animals have long been a popular form of entertainment. You’ll probably find them ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Blending Asian arcade culture into Chicago’s ...

I have been putting money into claw machines since I was a little kid. Although my success rate for actually retrieving anything from these machines is less than stellar, I can't help but be tempted ...