Jan. 21 (UPI) --A video game arcade in Japan was awarded a Guinness World Record for the largest number of claw crane machine games in one venue: 477. Genda Sega Entertainment announced Sega Shinjuku ...

A man watches as a doll he grabbed with the machine's claw is dropped back into the box while playing a crane game Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...

For 16-year-old Kuan-ting Lin, teaming up with his father to beat a claw crane game seemed like a winning idea. During a trip to Japan a few months ago, he played the arcade game for the first time ...

When Kelsey Ingersoll was told her 2-year-old son Ezra was "in" an arcade machine at a pizza joint in Alabama Monday night, the mom assumed the boy's sister was exaggerating. But then, sure enough, ...

Humanity is one step closer to replacement as the dominant species on Earth after capuchin monkeys have proven capable of using arcade claw machines. Capuchins are extremely intelligent creatures, ...

An employee patrols among a row of machines at an online claw crane game facility in Kanagawa Prefecture in June 2021. (Mainichi/Ryotaro Igawa) TOKYO -- Amusement arcades are also joining the trend of ...

An avid gamer has gone viral for sharing his foolproof trick to winning prizes from the claw machine every time. TikTokker Brandon posted a video revealing his simple yet effective hack for getting ...

Two Indonesian migrant workers from Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, who reportedly failed in many attempts to grab a prize from an arcade claw crane machine, allegedly used magnets to steal headphones from it ...