{"id":716049,"date":"2026-06-20T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716049\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:30:14","slug":"founder-of-assassins-creed-maker-ubisoft-killed-in-a-plane-crash-in-western-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716049\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Assassin&#8217;s Creed maker Ubisoft killed in a plane crash in western France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">A founder of Ubisoft, the global gaming company behind Assassin\u2019s Creed, has been killed in a plane crash in western France<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PARIS &#8212; A founder of global <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/gaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaming<\/a> company Ubisoft, maker of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" 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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ubisoft-tencent-guillemot-possible-buyout-64bb35d2a382cdad97ce34f5d70c4d71\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft<\/a> confirmed Guillemot&#8217;s death but did not comment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Guillemot and four brothers founded Ubisoft in 1986. In addition to the popular Assassin&#8217;s Creed franchise, Ubisoft\u2019s games also include Just Dance, and the Rayman and Tom Clancy game franchises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A founder of Ubisoft, the global gaming company behind Assassin\u2019s Creed, has been killed in a plane crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[28,559,793,33715,74,965],"class_list":["post-716049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-business","tag-gaming","tag-general-news","tag-plane-crashes","tag-technology","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716049","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=716049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}