With Deadpool & Wolverine‘s release nearing, the marketing campaign for the movie is starting to pick up pace. Social media is flooding with updates of Deadpool & Wolverine claw machines being ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Christopher Salazar could not stop with the plush round Kool-Aid Man. The 11-year-old claw machine master had to have more. So, outside a South Side strip mall on a recent early evening, he and his ...

I love taking my son to the arcade, sharing with him the games I grew up playing and the workarounds that can help improve his odds of winning. On one such trip, we spent too much time and money ...

Which mini claw machine is best? Nothing beats the satisfaction of winning a cool prize out of a claw machine. If your kid loves playing claw machines or wants to get better at them, buying a ...

A claw machine is a staple at any arcade. Also known as crane games, they require players to insert money or tokens to use a claw-like device to grab a prize, lift it up, and then let it go over the ...

A young woman has shared her shocking findings proving exactly how claw machines are rigged against players. TikToker Katie Clark, from Melbourne, was in disbelief when she found an instruction manual ...

Not all heroes wear capes, like this man who can help you dominate the claw machine. A TikToker named Brandon has gone viral for a hack showing gamers how to guarantee a win in the claw game — an ...

Capture adorable and apparently alive plushies that will follow you everywhere. Claw Machines cost in real life, but there’s no harm in spending hours catching plushies virtually in Claw Machine ...

Mike Nay bought his first claw machine during the pandemic to pass the time. Once he had the strategy down and arcades reopened, he was winning hundreds of plushies. He learned he could make a profit ...