Online claw machine games have been grabbing attention by allowing players to remotely control real machines and collect unusual prizes right from their phones. A 2,500-square-meter section of a huge ...

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 ...

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 ...