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Gameloft’s founding family gives up fighting Vivendi’s takeover

The Guillemot family is giving up on the inevitable in its battle with Vivendi.

The family said it would sell the majority of its shares in mobile game publisher Gameloft to Vivendi, which  has been waging a months-long campaign to take over Gameloft. It recently said it controlled the majority of shares.

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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.