On the day of its release last week, Fallout 4 was said to have led to an increase in people taking sick days from work.

Now, research has discovered it also appeared to have a direct impact on people's porn habits, too.

Analytics data from Pornhub reveals that traffic dropped by as much as 10 per cent on the day of release, which the site blames directly on people being distracted by the game.

On the day of its release last week, Fallout 4 was said to have led to an increase in people taking sick days from work. Now, research has discovered it also appeared to have a direct impact on people's porn habits, too. Pornhub traffic dropped by as much as 10% on the day of release and the site blames this on the game

In a blog post, Canada-based Porhub explained: 'Thanks to the nifty (and entirely anonymised) 'affinity' data that Google Analytics provides, we can see that many of our 60 million daily visitors are interested in gaming, based on their Google search and web browsing habits.

'Compared to an average day, we saw a slight 5 per cent increase in traffic among gamers in the early morning hours from 3 to 4 am.

'At this point we assume everyone's download completed and the gaming commenced.

'Starting at 5am traffic began to drop, down as much as 10 per cent from 7am till noon.

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'In the afternoon, traffic returned to normal but after 6pm it dropped again when we assume that 9 to 5 workers arrived home and fired up their games.'

However, after midnight the analytics show traffic jumping as high at 15 per cent above the daily average.

Elsewhere, Pornhub also analysed how the release affected the viewing habits of particular types of gaming fans.

By looking at the overall daily change on 10 November, the day the game launched, the site found the largest decrease in traffic came from sports games fans, with a drop of 13.7 per cent.

This was followed by action gamers with a drop of 7.7 per cent and adventure and strategy gamers on 7.2 per cent.

Interestingly, given the content of Fallout 4, the smallest daily decrease came from shooter game fans, with figures dropping just 1.2 per cent.

'Focusing on a few specific genres, we can see some interesting changes in the hourly graphs,' continued the site.

'Although shooter fans had the lowest overall change, they did have the highest increase in traffic before (12 per cent) and after (25 per cent) the Fallout 4 release.

'Action Fans and Adventure and Strategy fans followed each other closely throughout the entire day.'

Fallout 4 was one of the most hotly anticipated game releases of the year but following on from its release, the game was hit with problems.

Compared to an average day, Pornhub saw a 5% increase in traffic among gamers between 3 and 4 am. Starting at 5am traffic began to drop, down as much as 10 per cent from 7am till noon. In the afternoon, traffic returned to normal but after 6pm it dropped again (graph pictured)

Elsewhere, Pornhub also analysed how the release affected the viewing habits of particular types of gaming fans. The largest decrease in traffic came from sports games fans, with a drop of 13.7%, followed by action gamers with a drop of 7.7%, adventure and strategy gamers on 7.2% and shooter game fans dropping 1.2%

Video game maker Bethesda Softworks was forced to release a patch to fix problems facing the first players to purchase the enormous post-apocalyptic role playing game.

Among the issues it attempted to fix was a glitch that led to players' characters becoming trapped in an elevator while other players have reported problems using armour and issues loading the game.

These were not the only problems facing gamers who were hoping to get their hands on the latest installment in the best-selling series.

Retailer Game was forced to apologise to customers after it failed to supply pre-ordered limited edition copies of the title in time for the launch.

Video game fans rushed out to get their hands on the latest installment in the best-selling Fallout series - Fallout 4 last week. The game features female and male protagonists through a post apocolyptic version of Boston but some players reported glitches with the game and a patch was released to fix the problems

Power armour suits (pictured) worn by characters in the Fallout games are one of the most iconic elements of the series. The new game gives players the opportunity to modify their armour and weapons with upgrades

Fallout 4 launched on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC after a long wait by fans of the video games. The last addition to the series was released in 2010.

Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One versions occupied the top spots on Amazon's best seller list on the days after their release.

In the days leading up to the launch, Bethesda revealed a further peak at what the game contains with a new trailer featuring a female protagonist.

It contained a handful of scenes from an earlier trailer that heavily featured a canine character called Dog Meat along with a male survivor.

Set in Boston, the game features many famous locations from around the city.

Players of the game can take on the role of a number of characters who provide narrative to the game. Previous installments, however, have featured silent protagonists

Gamers are given the freedom to explore the city while they can also modify their amour and weapons.

They are even able to craft their own ammunition to create syringes that cause temporary paralysis or inject them with insect larvae.

So far the game has been warmly received by most reviewers but some have expressed disappointment that it was not more ambitious.

The game features a mysterious stranger who appears in previous versions of the game and is expected to play a key role as players make their way through the post-apocalyptic version of Boston