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 ...

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 ...

A claw machine remains a cornerstone of any arcade experience. These crane games, as they're also called, demand players feed money or tokens into the machine to operate a claw-like mechanism that ...

In a crowded casino made for kids, stocked with rows upon rows of neon, chiming claw machines, I saw my 12-year-old son’s life flash before my eyes. He had already drained $20 into a single machine ...

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 ...

Claw Haven, a new Asian-style claw arcade, opened in Cedar Park on Dec. 6, according to co-owner Michael Lu. The background The arcade is owned by Lu, Bradley Wong, Vicky Lee and ...

Claw machines can leave you feeling pretty angry in a short space of time, thanks to the fact you think you're going to win, and then... don't. Most people have experienced the disappointment of ...

A new kind of arcade is coming to San Antonio. Unlike a typical arcade, where one might encounter one claw machine in a sea of Street Fighter games, first-person shooters and pinball machines, this ...

You ever lose your engagement ring in a claw machine? No? Me either. But in Cupiclaw, a “roguelike deck-building claw machine game” from French developer Julien Tran, you’ll play as a man named Morris ...