Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies at 69 in Plane Crash
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- Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, died at 69 in a plane crash in France, the company confirmed.
- Guillemot co-founded Ubisoft in 1986 with his brothers and went on to chair Guillemot Corporation, a gaming hardware company.
- The crash in western France claimed two lives, according to multiple outlets including Fox Business and SFist.
- Ubisoft, the company behind franchises including Assassin's Creed and Just Dance, faces the loss of one of its founding brothers.
- Coverage from 25+ outlets — spanning gaming publications (Kotaku, IGN, Polygon, PC Gamer), general news (AP, Bloomberg, Forbes), and tabloids (The Sun, Mirror) — uniformly treated the death as major news for the global gaming industry.
Why it matters: Ubisoft loses one of the five Guillemot brothers who built the company into a global gaming giant behind Assassin's Creed; the co-founder structure and his separate role chairing Guillemot Corporation mean succession and governance questions now sit with the remaining family members and board.
