Aside from your daily task of protecting the streets of Hong Kong from gang members and rogue synthetics, Wanted: Dead will task players with enjoying themselves with various mini-games to participate ...

The Clawfish Arcade is accessible by train, a small boardwalk venue surrounded by dreamlike fog and lots of clear, blue water. It’s open only to me, the lone wanderer that’s free to skip stones off ...

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 ...

Beginning July 11, Android users in Japan will be able to play claw machines remotely in real time through Google apps that will only be available for one year. Google announced in a support article ...

How can such analog crane games thrive in a digital age? French sociologist Benoit Bottos investigates how these machines captivate players and spread pop-culture images across Japan.

Like the little green aliens in Disney’s “Toy Story,” people — often kids — may find themselves obsessed with “the claw.” ...