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 ...

is now the proud Guinness World Record-holder for the “most claw crane game machines at a single venue.” Taito Corporation set the record on August 29, 2020, when it opened the Taito Station Fuchu ...

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 ...

Players will be able to remotely control a real crane game machine and have their prize shipped to them if they win. Reading time 2 minutes In a few months, Android users in Japan will be able to try ...

Chasing prizes: Customers using claw machines in an arcade centre at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. — AFP Claw machine lover Neiki Lee carefully lowers the metal jaws of a crane with a joystick into a ...

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 ...

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 ...