As 12-year-old Serenity Myers waited to start a round of mini-golf with her grandparents a couple of weeks ago, her eyes wandered over the arcade games that filled the small building leading to the ...

The latest addition to Skate Zone 71 is a life-sized claw-machine experience. The Columbus skating rink, at 4900 Evanswood Drive, has the new "Become the Claw" experience, which offers guests a chance ...

Blending Asian arcade culture into Chicago’s Chinatown. “Claw It” is a claw-machine arcade filled with rows of brightly lit machines, stacked with plushies, prizes, and a whole lot of fun.

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 ...