{"id":715983,"date":"2026-06-20T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715983\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:44:10","slug":"assassins-creed-company-co-creator-killed-in-plane-crash-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715983\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin\u2019s Creed company co-creator killed in plane crash in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 A founder of global <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/gaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaming<\/a> company Ubisoft, maker of <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/assassins-creed-video-game-harassment-4b68890b7ed9ead8dbe3ad09dbee9859\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assassin\u2019s Creed,<\/a> was killed in a plane crash in western France, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The twin-motor Cessna 421 carrying Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor crashed Friday evening near La Baule airport on the Atlantic coast, Mayor Franck Louvrier said in a statement. Both were licensed and experienced pilots. The instructor also was killed, the mayor said. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ubisoft-tencent-guillemot-possible-buyout-64bb35d2a382cdad97ce34f5d70c4d71\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft<\/a> confirmed Guillemot\u2019s death but did not comment further.<\/p>\n<p>The plane crashed in a field just before landing at La Baule-Escoublac Airport, an airport official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named.<\/p>\n<p>Guillemot and four brothers founded Ubisoft in 1986. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 A founder of global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of Assassin\u2019s Creed, was killed in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15773,28,308564,594,559,793,33715,308565,965],"class_list":["post-715983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-business","tag-claude-guillemot","tag-france","tag-gaming","tag-general-news","tag-plane-crashes","tag-tom-clancy","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}