Like the little green aliens in Disney’s “Toy Story,” people — often kids — may find themselves obsessed with “the claw.” Claw machines, also known as crane machines, dot arcades, malls, even grocery ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro — already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers — has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, ...

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 ...

You ever lose your engagement ring in a claw machine? No? Me either. But in Cupiclaw, a “roguelike deck-building claw machine game” from French developer Julien Tran, you’ll play as a man named Morris ...

Fire and EMS workers successfully removed the child from the machine. One young arcade game player accidentally became the prize of his own game at a community center in Ohio on Monday. Fire and EMS ...

Le-An Than is the co-owner of Crane Games, a new claw machine arcade in Aurora, Colorado. Crane Games opened in July of 2024. Than and her business partner were inspired to open the arcade after a ...

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