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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of video game publisher Ubisoft, has died in a plane crash at age sixty-nine. According to Bloomberg, Guillemot and his brothers founded Ubisoft in nineteen eighty-six, building it into one of the world's largest game studios behind franchises including Assassin's Creed and Far Cry. The circumstances of the crash are under investigation.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/ubisof...

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