--- title: Obituary: TaleWorlds co-founder İpek Yavuz has passed away description: İpek Yavuz, co-founder of TaleWorlds Entertainment and studio head of the Mount & Blade series, has passed away at age 54. She co-founded the Ankara-based... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-taleworlds-co-founder-ipek-yavuz-has-passed-away-fld4khg16 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Obituary: TaleWorlds co-founder İpek Yavuz has passed away | daily.dev og:description: İpek Yavuz, co-founder of TaleWorlds Entertainment and studio head of the Mount & Blade series, has passed away at age 54. She co-founded the Ankara-based... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-taleworlds-co-founder-ipek-yavuz-has-passed-away-fld4khg16 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FlD4KHG16.png og:image:alt: Obituary: TaleWorlds co-founder İpek Yavuz has passed away og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Obituary: TaleWorlds co-founder İpek Yavuz has passed away **[Game Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary İpek Yavuz, co-founder of TaleWorlds Entertainment and studio head of the Mount & Blade series, has passed away at age 54. She co-founded the Ankara-based studio in 2005 alongside her husband Armağan Yavuz and contributed as CG artist on the original Mount & Blade and studio head on Bannerlord. TaleWorlds became the first Turkish game company to exhibit at E3 in 2016, with Mount & Blade achieving roughly seven million sales across 212 countries. The gaming community has shared tributes remembering her lasting impact on the series. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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