I try to minimize my Piracy, I have certain rules that I don't follow all the time, but have on my mind even if I don't follow them.
The most important rule: I don't blog on games I pirated, or at least not as much as games I bought with money... My reasoning is that I shouldn't profit from something I basically "stole" for my own enjoyment.
There are exceptions to this rule: Any game I played before I made this rule around 6 years ago doesn't count in it. Another exception is that while I don't make specific articles about games I pirated, I will use (my experience with) it for examples in the posts I do write.
I pirated Persona 4 (PS2) and didn't write articles about it, but I always provide examples from it when talking about Persona series. Will probably get P4 Golden on PC sometime in the future though.
Still, I don't follow this rule all the time even outside of those exceptions.
That's also the reason why I didn't write about Anime so much, I use one of the unofficial apps to download anime, (and recently Torrenting,) so I don't blog about anime as much as I watch it.
Looking at how often I try a new game from my backlog, I already have games in my Backlog from HumbleBundle for the next couple of years. Most of these games won't go past my first impression posts of them though.
the game studio that developed them must still be in business, it can't have sold out to another company,
Nice Idea!
If I went as far as reviewing a game, I've either purchased the game on Steam but got a refund, already own it or will buy it. :)