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 ...

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 ...

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

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-machine arcade chain Kako Claw, which opened a location at the Annapolis Mall earlier this year, will debut another location at Arundel Mills in October. It marks the company’s 10th location ...

On Friday, the Herald spoke to Daniel Baco and Angela Jimenez, who are the owners of a new claw machine business in the Killeen Mall. The new business — Clawtopia — is described as a claw machine ...

Collectible plushies and trinkets have made waves on social media, and they're fueling a new business venture around Chicago. Claw machine arcades have emerged as popular sources of rare collectibles, ...

A look inside Starbeary in Taipei, known as Taiwan’s largest claw machine store. Prizes from the machines can be exchanged ...

Have you ever wondered why you played the claw machine 10 times and lose and the next person behind you puts in one quarter and wins? It turns out, those claw machines are likely rigged. A recent ...

Claw machines are tricky, as anyone who's tried to grab a cuddly toy at one will know. For some children, the obvious thing is to forget the ineffectual grabbing device, and dive right in. That was ...