Mike Nay bought his first claw machine during the pandemic to pass the time. Once he had the strategy down and arcades reopened, he was winning hundreds of plushies. He learned he could make a profit ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

SINGAPORE — He has had bad experiences playing claw machines in pasar malams (night markets) in the past. Then three months ago, Ngee Ann Polytechnic student Ahmad Fauzi started seeing people coming ...

Arcade games whisk us back to the golden days of childhood, a time rife with the clinking sounds of coins and the palpable excitement at winning that coveted big-eyed, plush teddy. A popular game at ...

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 ...

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 ...