TAIPEI (AFP) - As Taiwan's economy stagnates, claw crane arcades, where customers lower a grabber to try to pick up a prize from a glass box, are booming as affordable entertainment, while operators ...

- From cigarettes to candy - This year, the industry is officially celebrating the 60th anniversary of these construction crane-inspired machines in Japan. But they have actually been around since ...

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 ...