Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot died in a twin-engine plane crash in La Baule, France, on Friday alongside one other passenger. He was 69.<\/p>\n
\u201cUbisoft \u200cwas deeply saddened to learn of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the group and chairman \u200bof Guillemot Corp., in an accident,\u201d the video game company shared in a \u200bstatement<\/a>, translated from French. \u201cOur thoughts are with his family \u2060and loved ones during this difficult time. No \u200bfurther statements will be made at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n Guillemot and the Cessna 421 plane were reportedly in town for an air show this weekend, per French newspaper Ouest-France<\/a>. According to the AP<\/a>, the other passenger was a flight instructor and both victims were licensed, experienced pilots. Mayor Franck Louvrier confirmed an investigation is now underway after the crash just outside La Baule-Escoublac Airport.<\/p>\n The Guillemot Corp. chairman founded Ubisoft in 1986 with his brothers, including Yves, who serves as chairman\/CEO of the video game publisher. The company is responsible for iconic franchises such as Rayman, Far Cry, Rabbids, Assassin\u2019s Creed, Just Dance, Watch Dogs and Tom Clancy\u2019s, just to name a few.<\/p>\n The post Claude Guillemot, Ubisoft Co-Founder, Dies at 69 in Twin-Engine Plane Crash<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot died in a twin-engine plane crash in La Baule, France, on Friday alongside one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3154,182,43702,43732,43705,43660],"class_list":["post-80527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-claude","tag-claude-guillemot","tag-guillemot-corp","tag-la-baule","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80527","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=80527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}