{"id":80435,"date":"2026-06-20T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/80435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:07:37","slug":"ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/80435\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tClaude Guillemot<\/a>, a co-founder of Assassin\u2019s Creed maker Ubisoft<\/a> alongside his four brothers, has died in a plane crash in France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrench media reported that Guillemot died on Friday evening when the Cessna 421 twin engine plane he was piloting crashed close to the aerodrome of the beach resort of La Baule in Western France where he has a vacation home. His instructor is reported to have died as well.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cUbisoft learned with deep sadness of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the group and President of Guillemot Corporation, in an accident. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this ordeal,\u201d an Ubisoft representative said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe entrepreneur and businessman and the unnamed plane instructor had reportedly set off from the city of Rennes for La Baule on Friday afternoon for the Fly In La Baule meeting gathering light airplane enthusiasts. <\/p>\n

\n\tClaude Guillemot, who was 69, co-created video games specialist Ubisoft with brothers Michel, Yves, G\u00e9rard and Christian in their hometown of Carentoir in Brittany in 1986. <\/p>\n

\n\tKicking off with early games Zombi, Iron Lord, it steadily grew into one of the most influential game makers in the world with titles Assassin\u2019s Creed,\u00a0Rayman, Driver,\u00a0Rabbids,\u00a0Tom Clancy\u2019s, and\u00a0Watch Dogs.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also led on the development of their other joint company Guillemot Corporation, specialized in gaming accessories and digital audio technology, which was created prior to Ubisoft in 1984.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2000, the brothers also formed Gameloft, which would go on to become a major player in downloadable video games for smartphones.<\/p>\n

\n\tClaude Guillemot handed the day-to-day running of Guillemot Corporation to his son Valentin Guillemot in July 2025, appointing him CEO, but remained attached to the company in the role Chairman of the Board of Director and continued to guide its overall direction. <\/p>\n

\n\tOver at Ubisoft, which is headed by brother Yves Guillemot, Claude Guillemot was on the board under the title of Deputy Chief Executive Officer but was not part of the day-to-day leadership team.<\/p>\n

\n\tClaude Guillemot\u2019s death comes as Ubisoft gears up for the release of its reboot Black Flag Resynced\u00a0on July 9, which it hopes will reset the company\u2019s fortunes after a number of difficult years financially in which the popularity of its games has waned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of Assassin\u2019s Creed maker Ubisoft alongside his four brothers, has died in a plane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3154,182,43702,7820,7775,43660],"class_list":["post-80435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-claude","tag-claude-guillemot","tag-france","tag-obituaries","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}