Zerator
Adrien Nougaret, best known under his pseudonym ZeratoR, is a French video game online streamer, event organizer and esports commentator.
Biography
Youth
Nougaret was born in Montpellier on 1 March 1990. His father is a lawyer and his mother is the director of a daycare. He has a brother and two sisters. He is a French citizen and tax resident.Career
ZeratoR has a large following on Twitch and YouTube where he streams a variety of video games. He regularly hosts esports events in France, notably his annual multi-game LAN event. He is also known for the TrackMania competition, which he organized. Since 2023, the cup has been replaced by a similar competition called Ascension, which is held in arenas in multiple French cities and focuses on a different game each year, beginning with Trackmania for the 2023 edition.Since 2016, ZeratoR organizes and livestreams the annual charity project Z Event. The last edition in september 2025 resulted in donations of 16.2 million euros to 8 associations; some editions received French president Emmanuel Macron's support and congratulations.
Other ventures
Esports
ZeratoR is the president of the gaming publication and Esports team. Before the sites creation in 2020, Nougaret had been personally sponsoring various esports teams.Game Development
In 2016, Nougaret founded a video games development studio named Unexpected.The studio's first game, dWARf, was a commercial failure, but Nougaret considered it a "personal success" for himself and the studio's team. The game's online servers were shut down 4 months after the game's release due to a lack of players.
In September 2020, the studio's third game, titled As Far As The Eye released to mild commercial success, financing the studio's operations for the next 2 years.