A founder of Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft killed in a plane crash in western France
The company said Guillemot helped build Ubisoft into one of the world’s largest video game publishers, with franchises including Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.
- On Friday, June 19, Ubisoft cofounder and Guillemot Corporation Chairman Claude Guillemot died in a Cessna 421 plane crash near the aerodrome of Baule, France.
- Guillemot founded Ubisoft on March 28, 1986, alongside his brothers Yves, Michel, and Christian, after the Guillemot Corporation's initial success as a computer hardware distributor.
- According to ICI, the Cessna 421 burst into flames upon crashing, setting fire to vegetation near the aerodrome. Sixty firefighters and thirty ambulances responded to the scene.
- Franck Louvrier, mayor of Baule, stated the twin-engine propeller aircraft crashed during its approach for landing. A source close to the investigation reported Guillemot was at the controls.
- Flags flew at half-mast at the aerodrome on Saturday, June 20, as a tribute to the victims. Ubisoft expressed profound sadness over the loss of its cofounder.
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dead at 69 after plane crash in western France
Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who built the French video game giant Ubisoft from a mail-order software startup into a global powerhouse, was killed Friday evening when a twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed in a field near La Baule, France. He was 69. A flight instructor aboard the same aircraft also died. No other casualties...
Claude Guillemot, Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft's co-founder, dies in plane crash in France
Claude Guillemot, who co-founded Ubisoft with his brothers, died in a plane crash near La Baule in western France. Ubisoft said it was deeply saddened as the death marks the loss of a key figure behind the publisher's rise.
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
Claude Guillemot, who founded Ubisoft with his four brothers, has died at the age of 69.
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Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who founded Ubisoft and helped transform it into one of the world’s largest video game publishers, has died following a plane crash in western France. He was 69 years old. Ubisoft confirmed Guillemot’s death in a statement released Bloomberg Saturday. A promotional image for Rainbow Six Siege – Ubisoft READ: ‘The View’ Co-Hosts Attack Joy Behar for Treating JD Vance Like a Human Being “Ubisoft was deepl…
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