Gameloft CEO reportedly stepping down after Vivendi takeover

Gameloft chief executive Michel Guillemot is expected to resign in the wake of Vivendi’s successful hostile takeover of the French mobile game publisher, according to a Bloomberg report.

Bloomberg said that Vivendi has gained control of more than 56 percent of Gameloft’s stock in a months-long attempt to gain control of the mobile gaming pioneer, which has had a hard time in the past year. Gameloft lost money and cut more than 500 jobs in 2015, partly because the competition in mobile gaming has become so intense.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.