I know that too, but apps don't release worldwide at the same time... so it should be the 31st everywhere, or at least late at night on the 30th.
What do you mean? When it hits 12:00am or around that time in that country, the local app store for that country should release the games set for a release at that time.
Yeah, and he's in the US so why is he waiting for 11am on the 30th? Unless he's just waiting for the NZ release to hear feedback... or maybe he has an NZ account or something sneaky like that... If I'm missing something obvious here it's because it's 10am and I still haven't slept.
Lookie Here, Take a gander at the iTunes search bar and then on the left side of the iTunes page. What company do you see? (Hint: It's Remedy Entertainment ltd)
Can't you set the address bar to do a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search? That's what FireFox does. Plus I've got it set up to Google search when I prefix something in the address bar with ".find"