The venue taps into gaming nostalgia while offering modern machines with better odds than traditional carnival versions.

SAN DIEGO (CN) - The "claw machine," in which kids try to drop a claw onto a stuffed animal, is an illegal gambling operation and should be shut down, a woman claims in a class action against Denny's.

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 ...

Yes, that’s right. In Brookfield, you can find an arcade exclusively dedicated to claw machines. It’s called, fittingly, Claw ...

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 ...

One of the many sacred rituals of childhood includes the annual summer tradition of pumping quarter after quarter into a carnival claw machine game, in an attempt to capture that one elusive toy ...