As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors at the event will be able to play on the machines to attempt to plushies from the Myushi-Wedding BIG Plushie series. This line features variations of Sanrio characters such as Cinnamoroll, ...

Unis Technology, a leading manufacturer of amusement and arcade games, has joined forces with Toikido to create a Piñata Smashlings crane machine. This innovative collaboration brings the popular ...

7-Eleven Japan has been grabbing a lot of attention recently, what with their matcha dessert burritos and their new luggage storage service for travelers. But rival Japanese convenience store chain ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Midnight Crane A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot ...

About 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, ...