Gaikai is gearing up towards beta testing, reports MCV, where word is the cloud gaming initiative may be nearing a deal with a gaming site, as they quote spokesperson Dave Perry saying: "At the 11th hour a major USA gaming site has asked us to let them run our Closed Beta. If the deal can be done quickly we will do that, if not we will invite 100,000 people in to play from our own users." Perry also says that Gaikai, which now seems to be billing itself primarily as a "video game advertising network," is actually ready for its close-up: "Gaikai is ready to launch now, we've started working on Server Design 2.0 while we wait for launch to happen."