Tinashe Says She Always Brings Her PS5 on Tour To Play This Game

Whens she’s not making music, chances are you’ll find Tinashe (aka SniperNashe) sniping away at bad guys in Call of Duty: Warzone. The singer loves to talk about her obsession with the game — including with Billboard last August — and all that chatter has paid of in a new promo featuring Tinashe hyping the return of the Verdansk map.

And even if some people still look sideways at her game skills, she’s not sweating it. “I think it’s something that you kind of expect with the territory and within the culture, and something that I’m definitely used to,” she told Rolling Stone of the side-eye women gamers still get sometimes. “Gaming culture is super huge, and especially women — young women — [are] an underappreciated fan community. So, it’s really nice to be able to represent that. And yeah, hopefully with more representation, the less we’ll have those kind of stigmas.”

Because of her obsession, the “Nasty” vocalist told the magazine that she always brings her PlayStation console on tour to set up in venues before her shows. “It’s one of the ways that I can still stay connected with the things I love to do at home, because you have so much downtime on the road before shows,” she said. “If I’m flying show to show, I probably won’t bring it because it’ll just be a little bit of a hassle going through security, but whenever we’re on a bus tour, I definitely always bring it.”

Her focus on the game is so intense, in fact, that she admitted she’d rather play than work on new music when she’s on the road. “I’m not really a big fan of recording while I’m touring because it’s hard for me to split my energy and attention that way,” she said of her attention to Call of Duty‘s free-to-play first-person shooter game that debuted in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic when she, and everyone else, had a lot of free time at home. “But now the Match My Freak Tour is done, and I’m just doing more spot dates, a couple here and there. So, now I’m really kind of more focused on creative mode.”

At Billboard’s Women in Music 2025 event in March, the Tinashe promised now that her dates are over she “excited to get in there [the studio] and work on what’s next musicwise.”

Watch Tinashe describe the sniper tower rampage that earned her her killer nickname in the promo video for the return of the beloved original Verdansk map below.