Relatively new to the stock market. I want to invest about $1000. Im looking at developers/ publishers (that are public companies obviously) that are small/ new/ or have good products on horizon. Since I'm investing so little I think it's best to eliminate the big companies like Microsoft/ ea/ take-two. Being so big a 5% growth in 6 months is huge for them but won't return me much money. 

  I've got an eye on starbreeze studios. They are trading at 1.80 $ a share. Just aquired the payday devs and the third game is announced. Have a payday like sci-fi game in development( been a few years though) and they also publish some games like dead by daylight and some others. They have vr in the works as well. 

  What are your thoughts on them, other companies, and video game stocks in general. You guys investing in anything?

Growth stocks aren't really a good idea, unless you are sure the company is both going to take off, and stable enough to not collapse leaving you with nothing. Put your money in Amazon. They are still growing, and are very stable. Best of both worlds.