{"id":716116,"date":"2026-06-20T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716116\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:18:08","slug":"claude-guillemot-co-founder-of-video-game-maker-ubisoft-dies-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716116\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Guillemot, co-founder of video game maker Ubisoft, dies in plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A founder of global\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/gaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gaming<\/a>\u00a0company Ubisoft, maker of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/assassins-creed-video-game-harassment-4b68890b7ed9ead8dbe3ad09dbee9859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed,<\/a>\u00a0was 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guillemot was 69 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ubisoft-tencent-guillemot-possible-buyout-64bb35d2a382cdad97ce34f5d70c4d71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ubisoft<\/a>\u00a0confirmed Guillemot&#8217;s 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&#8217;s Creed franchise, Ubisoft&#8217;s games also include Just Dance, and the Rayman and Tom Clancy game franchises.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A founder of global\u00a0gaming\u00a0company Ubisoft, maker of\u00a0Assassin&#8217;s Creed,\u00a0was killed in a plane crash in western France, authorities said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,13441],"class_list":["post-716116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716116","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=716116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}