June 20, 2026

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule

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Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule in western France. He was 69. Guillemot and a flight instructor from Rennes were both killed when their twin-engine Ces...