KATY, Texas -- The claw machine craze has hit southeast Texas. The Japanese-inspired arcades, featuring prizes such as anime figurines and plush toys, have become increasingly popular over the past ...

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 ...

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.

A crane with a claw hand hovers over your desired prize. You're armed with nothing but a joystick to help maneuver it left and right, and a button that drops the claw. It lands as you wait to see if ...

SILVERDALE — Ten-year-old Christine Werren beamed with happiness when she walked out of a newly-opened Tokyo-style arcade in Silverdale with a plastic bag of over 10 plushies in it — all were prizes ...

HONOLULU, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fantasy Claw Arcade (FCA), the experiential, wizard-themed claw arcade phenomenon, announces the opening of its newest U.S. location in the International Market ...