Hamza Haq-Staff Writer

Hamza Haq

Staff Writer

April, 2024
4 years of writing in the gaming sector, 8+ years of professional writing
RPG, Open-World, Survival
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About Hamza Haq

Hamza Haq serves as a writer for the gaming guides and lists department at GameRant, while dabbling in news coverage on the side. Based in Pakistan, he has been writing professionally about games since 2023, though his love for gaming stretches back much further.
 

A dedicated PC gamer and a firm believer in Keyboard/Mouse supremacy, he will play Tekken with WASD if you let him. Although he considers himself a PC loyalist to the bone, he has a weakness for anything Nintendo. While he mainly enjoys RPGs, he is open to trying new things and exploring different genres, especially indies with cool ideas.
 

When he’s not bent over a keyboard, he’s reading fantasy novels, discovering obscure podcasts, experimenting with home-brewed coffee concoctions, and trying to convince his dad that his career is, in fact, a real job.

Favorite Games

Hamza considers Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Red Dead Redemption 2, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pokemon LeafGreen, The Witcher 3, Crimson Desert, Subnautica, and Elden Ring to be his top 10 favorite games of all time.
 

But, gun to his head, if he had to choose just one game to play for the rest of his life, it would be The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim loaded up with 5000+ mods of his choosing.

Returning to Skyrim to see what the modding community has cooked up, filling up his hard drive with hundreds of gigabytes worth of mods, troubleshooting the load order errors to make sure everything runs smoothly, is practically a monthly ritual for him. That he never manages to finish a playthrough before a shiny new mod makes him do it all over again is beside the point.

Industry Focus

From ARPGs like Path of Exile 2 to platformers like Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hamza has covered a wide selection of games from different genres. His extensive experience writing about different types of games has allowed him to become accustomed to learning on the job. 


Open-world games in the vein of Crimson Desert and Skyrim, isometric role-playing games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Pathfinder, and survival crafting games like Subnautica and Enshrouded are his specialties, and the gaming genres he is most knowledgeable about. 

Favorite Console

The Game Boy Advance is the console Hamza remembers most fondly. Though, funnily enough, he has never personally owned one in his entire life.


Growing up, a kid on the block he used to live on had a GBA gifted to him on his birthday, along with a copy of Pokemon LeafGreen. That friend used to come over to his house to learn how to play the game. Hamza was the local Pokemon expert back then, at least among kids his age, and the evening hours he spent teaching that friend the basics of Pokemon battling, puzzling out how to progress the story, and hunting for shinies for hours on end are among his most cherished memories.

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