{"id":749407,"date":"2026-06-20T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749407\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:48:16","slug":"game-maker-ubisoft-founder-killed-in-france-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749407\/","title":{"rendered":"Game maker Ubisoft founder killed in France plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">June 21, 2026 00:46 | <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/category\/external-feeds\/aap-news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A founder of global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of Assassin\u2019s Creed, has been killed in a plane crash in western France, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the company and president of the Guillemot Foundation, died in an accident, Ubisoft said in a statement to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>It did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>A Cessna plane carrying Guillemot and one other person crashed on Friday evening in a field just before it was set to land at La Baule Airport on the Atlantic coast, an airport official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to be publicly named.<\/p>\n<p>Local media said both people aboard were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Guillemot and four brothers founded Ubisoft in 1986.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the popular Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise, Ubisoft\u2019s games also include Just Dance and the Rayman and Tom Clancy game franchises.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/author\/aap-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AAP-Logo1-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-200x200 size-200x200\" alt=\"AAP News\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian Associated Press is the beating heart of Australian news. AAP is Australia\u2019s only independent national newswire and has been delivering accurate, reliable and fast news content to the media industry, government and corporate sector for 85 years. We keep Australia informed.<\/p>\n<p>Latest stories from our writers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 21, 2026 00:46 | News A founder of global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of Assassin\u2019s Creed, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-749407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}