When Epic Games released Fortnite five years ago, the video game quickly became a cultural sensation among millions of teenagers and children.Earlier this month, the agency made an aggressive move to stop consolidation among video game makers when it filed a lawsuit to try to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company behind the popular Call of Duty franchise.is cracking down on these unlawful practices.” Epic Games said in a statement that the company had instituted multiple children’s privacy and purchasing safeguards over the years and that “the practices referenced in the F.T.C.’s complaints are not how Fortnite operates.” Inside the Video Gaming Industry - Microsoft-Activision Deal: In an aggressive check on big tech’s power, the Federal Trade Commission sued to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard.California enacted a sweeping online children’s safety law in September that will require companies to turn on the highest privacy settings for children by default and turn off certain features, like precise location tracking, that might expose them to risk.Last year, Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced a bill that would expand the federal children’s online privacy law to cover teenagers ages 13 to 16."