Well, most Australian EB Games stores will be having midnight launches but not here in Western Australia where we have archaic trading laws which don't allow trading between certain hours and certainly not midnight launches. I was told that the last time EB Games tried a midnight launch in Perth, they were slapped with a $10K fine! As for censorship, I do recall when GTA1 was first released and I bought the game for my son. I was horrified when I saw the content (as he was much too young to be playing it but the classification didn't indicate more adult content) and took it back to where I bought it from. Days later, it was withdrawn from sale around the country and re-classified with a re-issue.

Hey fancy seeing you out in the wild ;) It was 100k and for Halo 2.

We have pretty strict censorship laws, like Fallout 3 got banned and criticized A LOT because you could use drugs in a realistic way, and pretty much every GTA game has been either banned or edited to cut out the fact you can murder prostitutes.

Rubbish Fallout 3 was not banned. Australian censorship law is a bit like film rating guidelines in the US. A game that's rated R in Australia can't be sold to minors. A minor is a person under 18.