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 ...

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 ...

Round1 arcades in the US are replacing anime figures in skill machines with sponges and tissues, and fans aren’t happy.

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 ...

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 ...